I don't know anything about a 606, but from your description it sounds like an old conventional gas engine as far as the ignition is concerned.
Question: Did you take apart the distributor and clean the spark advance? Even if it's electronically operated, it could have become corroded and cause timing problems. Would that cause your problem? It caused me the same problem several times before I got into diesels. Solution: If it's like the old distributors, take it apart, remove any rust or corrosion with very fine sandpaper, grease it, and it should be good for a long while. Dan Penoff wrote: > I’m just chapped over the fact that a $1000 part can sideline this car, not > to mention there is no guarantee that this is the issue. Everything in the > DAS says it is, as I‘ve eliminated the only other possibility, a bad coil. > > Car was parked (literally) on the waterfront in St. Pete for about 10 days. > During this time we had at least 10-15 inches of rain as well. Son gets > back, starts car up, it idles poorly and has no power. Idle smooths out, but > he can still barely get it to move until it gets up to about 25-30 MPH. He > gets it on the interstate and drives it home without a hitch - except that it > has no power to speak of below 25-30 MPH. > > I look into it and make sure the distributor caps and rotors are clean and > dry, which is a known issue for these cars when in damp locations. I found > some burn spots on plug wires (the original wires) so I order a new set of > Berus for it. > > Install new wires. Still has no power at low speed. Slap the DAS on it and > find out the left side distributor isn’t firing, at least all of the > cylinders connected to it aren’t. > > Check the coil. Checks good, but I have spares from the S500 coupe. Try one > of those. No change. Swap coils, no change. > > Only thing left and the only other error reported by the DAS is the EZL > (ignition module). I also check out all the wiring between the EZL and coil. > Checks out fine. > > So at this point I’m being told by the diagnostic software that it’s the coil > primary or the EZL. Since the coil checks out and everything to it, the only > thing left is the EZL. > > My mailman is driving by as I type this, so it’s here. I’ll be installing it > tonight and will report back. > > I would add that I talked to my 3rd generation indie last week about this, > and he gave me some direction on the DAS and how to follow things through. > He didn’t want to look at it until I had exhausted all of the DAS > possibilities, which was really nice of him. He spent a good 10-15 minutes > with me going over the different screens and what I should look for. > > Grrr. > > > > On Aug 27, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > >> I don’t want a W140 anything. I am so p*ssed over the inability to > >> control or even marginally bypass the systems in this thing I’m done with > >> it. While I have learned a significant amount with the really in depth use > >> of the DAS/HHT, I am so frustrated by the complexity of the systems that > >> it’s just not worth the headache when something goes wrong. > > > > Which is EXACTLY WHY used MBs, no longer have a great resale value, even > > Diesels! > > > > They end up in an auction, go through a series of short term owners, then > > get crushed because the electronic crap is not worth fixing. Even the 87 > > to 93 wiring harnesses lard to premature crushing of lots of cars and was > > the start of the ruin of resale values. > > > > People will spend thousands on their hondog or toada to buy overpriced > > parts once or twice in a couple hundred K miles, but they refuse to > > maintain an MB. > > > > Back in the 70s, ANY MB diesel that ran brought $5000 or more! (unless it > > was a rust bucket) Even onces so rusted there was little usable but the > > drive train brought $1000 up! > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > -- arche...@embarqmail.com <arche...@embarqmail.com> --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________ 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
