I pulled the ETA some time ago as the car was running very badly and the ETA was likely the culprit. I sent it off to this guy Don Roden who rebuilds them.
He called me this morning after he got it and said it was the wrong ETA for the car, a non-ASR ETA. Plus it was all corroded like it had been in water and not rebuildable. So it appears at some point someone put the wrong ETA on the car. The guy I bought it from got it from an estate sale, it had sat for some time, so maybe the former owner had buggered it up. This guy and his dad were working on it but decided to move on, they had done some ham handed stuff to the engine stuff but fortunately didn’t mess it up too bad. Mostly just crap parts. I replaced all the intake hoses and such with proper parts. The guy had another ETA in the trunk he had bought thinking maybe this was an issue. Don told me what the proper part number was and this one was it. So he said to send him this one for rebuild but I’m thinking I should probably give it a try first to see if it works so I think I’ll put it on the car and see if it works. Installing it is a bit of a pain but shouldn’t take too long. So that’s on my card for the next few days. Would be cool if it works! Fun times. --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
