Gute Arbeit! Kevin in Lexington, NC Sent from my iPhone
> On Mar 16, 2023, at 11:56 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Did some more investigation of the 01CL600 and why it started showing faults > for the new right cam position sensor I just put in and the 2 upstream O2 > lambda sensors on right side zylinders 1-6. These are before the cattle attic > conversers. I don’t think the zylinders are actually firing since these > components aren’t reporting. This fault is recent, all appeared to be working > when I drove it the other day. Unclear what’s going on. I’m thinking some > sort of electrical issue but couldn’t see anything. Their wires seem to go > directly to the ECU. There might be some sort of test procedure for them in > the DAS so I need to hook that up and look that up. Bah. > > I think I determined the oil cooler is in fact leaking as is common on these > engines. Bah. Huge job. $$$$. Bah. > > Max provided me an OVP relay for the 95E320 which one day refused to start. I > swapped it in this afternoon and the car fired right up. YAY! Call that a > success. I took out the battery to do the job (there is a bolt holding it up > to the ECU housing that is hard to reach) then the tray as it was full of > schmutz in there. There was enough crud to grow spuds 🥔 down in there. No > rust though. Not bad for a 27yo car. > > The plastic elbow fitting on top of the radiator is leaking where it goes > into the radiator, there is a metal clip that holds it in. I’m thinking I > should pry that off, see if there is an o-ring or something in there, or just > slather it with JBW and see if that seals it up. > > I think it needs a head gasket too, common problem on these engines it seems. > Bah. > > I have to order rear break pats for the 05E320 wagon and the 05ML500. And a > new intake manifold for the 12GL450. I watched a vid today on replacing it, > doesn’t look like too bad a job, just fiddly. Maybe 3hr work. Cheep plastic > chit in the manifold commonly breaks. > > The sound system in the GL is really good. I bought a $16 Bluetooth dongle to > plug into the MMI port in the glovebox (this is a weird system that is also > used in BMW Audi and other marques) that my phone can talk to as AUX. The > head unit actually talks via BT to my phone but only for calls. Won’t do > music though for some unknown reason but phone will connect to both at the > same time it seems. So now the phone will do both and the music podcasts etc > sound really good but if a call comes in I can talk through the system too. > The nav system mostly works given the vintage, or my phone will talk through > it if I want the directions from thh by e phone nav apps. Roads don’t > actually change that much so good enough. I kinda like it though it’s a bit > weird. > > I’m going to get the 99E320 ready to sell. The battery was drained so it is > charging. It’s been sitting awhile. Nice car though. > > Fun times with the vast fleet. > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > _______________________________________ > 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
