[MBZ] 300CD - Failure of locking vacuum on both front seats

2006-05-15 Thread andrew strasfogel
The seat back locking vacuum on both front seats has not been working for months, she told me today (1985 300CD). Does anyone know if each seat operates independent of the other, or whether a leak in one side affects the other as well? I checked under the hood and all vacuum lines are intact.

Re: [MBZ] 300CD - Failure of locking vacuum on both front seats

2006-05-15 Thread Marshall Booth
andrew strasfogel wrote: The seat back locking vacuum on both front seats has not been working for months, she told me today (1985 300CD). Does anyone know if each seat operates independent of the other, or whether a leak in one side affects the other as well? I checked under the hood and all

Re: [MBZ] 300CD - Failure of locking vacuum on both front seats

2006-05-15 Thread Jim Cathey
each seat operates independent of the other, or whether a leak in one side affects the other as well? I checked under the hood and all They are in parallel, and if one leaks both will fail. There ought to be a blue line under the hood, that is the seatback locking vacuum source line. Got

Re: [MBZ] 300CD - Failure of locking vacuum on both front seats

2006-05-15 Thread andrew strasfogel
Thanks, Jim and Marshall. That's exactly what I needed. I'll run some tests but my instinct says it's a faulty check valve or driver's door jamb servo. On 5/14/06, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: each seat operates independent of the other, or whether a leak in one side affects the