I noticed that yesterday. However, what I can see appears to be stock and unaltered, although as I go through the car in more detail I definitely am finding things that would indicated someone in the past liked to second guess the engineers and cut corners.
For instance: Figured I would replace the cabin air filters, since this car has them - or does it? I pulled all of the plenum pieces out to get at the filters, and guess what? They’re not there. As in someone removed them and never put replacements in. Yup, a gaping hole from the plenum straight into the airbox/evaporator/heater core. Lovely. So with the plenum pulled apart and all of the seals removed, I vacuumed the detritus from AZ out, mostly pine needles as one would expect and then installed fresh cabin air filters. While I was in the neighborhood I pulled the cover off of the monowiper and greased everything in sight with Mobil 1 grease. That area looked pretty good. In anticipation of future troubleshooting of the AC system, specifically the auxiliary fans, I reconnected the disconnected wires from the high temperature refrigerant switch on the receiver/dryer. I’ll be looking into aux fan operation later today, I suspect. I also noticed that the tube from the exhaust manifold going to the air intake valve (EGR I expect) has been pinched off. That is, someone appears to have cut the tube off just above the clamp at the manifold and then smashed the stub of the tube flat to seal it. The connection at the intake tube appears to have been left open to outside air. There is no cap or plug. <face palm> At this point I’m going to do some interior cleaning and get that sorted before I get under the car and poke around. -D > On May 13, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > There are a ton of vacuum lines under the manifold that you can't really see > unless the manifold is off, or maybe from under the car. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On May 13, 2017, at 7:15 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> Clay bar’ed and waxed the car this morning. No need for polishing as the >> finish is good and I don’t want to take any of the clear coat off. >> >> The car has definitely been repainted at some point in its past. Not a bad >> thing, just something I noticed as I worked on the exterior. >> >> Now that I have the exterior pretty much in order, I’ll move to the interior >> and get the carpets clean and clean the interior thoroughly. For the most >> part it’s not bad, the headliner is a little dirty, but otherwise this >> should be a fairly easy job. Looking forward to seeing what under the rear >> seat cushion yields. The PO did leave about $5 of change in the ash tray. >> Nice! >> >> After the interior is done I’ll get the car in the air and do some work >> underneath. I’ll probably flush the brakes, as the fluid is almost black. >> I need to check the transmission vacuum modulator, as I suspect that’s the >> source of the hard shift issue since all of the vacuum lines topside look OK >> and to be in the proper positions. >> >> In my down time I’ll start getting a parts list together to sort out the >> breather tubing on the intake. I have GOT to sort that out, as it’s making >> me crazy looking at it. Antenna doesn’t work, either, so I need to pop the >> aftermarket head unit and see if it’s connected properly before I tear into >> the antenna. >> >> -D >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________ 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
