Another winner! Three hours this morning for the indy to do that dance and find the new bosch wires were faulty. Poor craftsmanship on mating the boots to the wires and after running for a few hundred miles the wires had moved from making contact to making arcs and once he found there was no difference with swapping injectors he decided to swap wires around.
clay On Jan 25, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Dieselhead wrote: > I know nothing about that vintage gasser FI. However the M116 engine of the > 80s had a system where you could pull up the whole "octopus" of the fuel > distributor and all 8 lines and watch what it did while cranking the engine > over. If that works on your engine, then that is a simple way to isolate > problems. > > If you swap the injector from the dead cyl with another cyl does the problem > move with the injector or stay with the cyl? > Or, can you pull one inj from the dead cyl and hook it to the line outside > the engine? If so, then crank and watch the spray, same as a diesel spray > test. > > If you have compression and ignition, and can determine if you have fuel, > then you are left with air. is there an obstruction in the intake manifold? > > Have you double checked firing order and engine cyl numbering system? > > > >> The under hood cats were either '75 & '76 or '76 & '77. You should not have >> them. You do have that earlier fuel injection system that I know nothing >> about at all. >> >> OK Don >> 2001 ML320 >> 2012 Passat TDI DSG >> 1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager >> 1957 C182A > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
