We had a club event at a local shop. The owner gave a presentation on fuel injection and ACC in the current classic cars (1970-1990). Most of the stuff was about Bosch (when Bosch was good) There are a plethora of items in the injection system that have screws that tempt owners to do stupid things that render the cars undrivable. He pointed out the many places that fuel distributors, electronics and such have screws that get twisted by idiots thinking they can improve the very overly engineered and incredibly specifically set parameters that would require a test bench to correct. The take away was that if you put a tool to these things you may need to pay many thousands of dollars to put it right.
The ACC was less screw driver prone. Most of the issues are related to limited longevity and the parts not being available anymore. There is a need for these orphan products to once more be available and we need to make a concerted and widespread effort to do interweb searches for the parts by number and such so that the fabricators take notice of a growing demand. Somebody can make a very good living if they were to concoct a vacuum pump rebuild kit for the classic diesels. The kits are NLA and this is sidelining a great number of cars. There was also mention of Beckman being a very worthy rebuilder of electronics. The opinion of the presenter was that the replacement parts were superior to OE parts, and probably more available. The C series seemed to have had an ignition module that was a massive failure and the factory went bankrupt, leaving car owners mad and dealers stripping the parts from floor models to keep the other cars on the road. --- clay > I turned my computer upside down and shook it, but the bookmark for what I'm > looking for didn't fall out. _______________________________________ http://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
