Re: [MBZ] Turbo adjustment on a 300SDL, A/C & search for parts

2005-08-02 Thread Marshall Booth
Nick Gough wrote: BTW, when the A/C is on, and I try to accelerate hard, the car seems slower and I don't hear or feel the A/C cutoff. I could have a faulty switch, I guess. Thanks guys, I really appreciate the advice. I guess since no one has responded on the seat thingy, that no one has a

Re: [MBZ] Turbo adjustment on a 300SDL, A/C & search for parts

2005-08-02 Thread Nick Gough
m: Joe Knight Subject: Re: [MBZ] Turbo adjustment on a 300SDL, A/C & search for parts To: Mercedes mailing list Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 You've pretty obviously been playin' hooky for a while now, Nick. ;) Your times are

Re: [MBZ] Turbo adjustment on a 300SDL, A/C & search for parts

2005-08-01 Thread Dave M.
d be one of a number of things - not sure where to start. I'm not a W126 expert so I'll let someone else pipe up on that topic. :-) HTH, Dave M. Boise, ID > -- > Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:39:48 -0700 (PDT) > From: Nick Gough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [MBZ] Turbo adjustment on a 300SDL, A/C & search for parts

2005-08-01 Thread Joe Knight
You've pretty obviously been playin' hooky for a while now, Nick. ;) Your times are on the slow side, but before you start foolin' with the wastegate you need to patch in a pressure gauge to the boost line to the ALDA, preferably right near it rather than further upstream, and run it into the pas

[MBZ] Turbo adjustment on a 300SDL, A/C & search for parts

2005-08-01 Thread Nick Gough
In my early efforts to sell the 86 300SDL (I've postponed that one a year or so... finances), someone mentioned after driving it, that the turbo was weak and it needed to be adjusted. He suggested that it was a valve of some sort. I've always thought that the only adjustment on any turbo was th