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Brittle plastic..the good n' the bad

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Gundy

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The 420SEL pooped out on the old lady the other day whislt
she was waiting on the gate to open. She noted the tach was going all wonky just prior to the konk out.
Of course it starts for me when I get home. :jester:
Checked the battery. 11.4 volts ain't good. Will not take a charge.
New battery. Now it will not crank. Spin like a demon but will not fire.
Check revealed no gas. Meter shows no juice to fuel pumps.
Buy new fuse pump relay. No start. WTF. Still no juice to fuel pump. Grrrrrrr
Now the brittle plastic tale:
Seems the plastic was so brittle on the plug-in for the relay
the holds had snapped when I tried to plug the new relay in.
That's the bad. No way to get the thing plugged in.
No way to unbolt the plastic bracket holding the plug-in without taking the dash off.
Large screwdriver just snapped the sucker right off the firewall. Now I can hold the frigging thing to plug the relay in. Wedged it back into it's little cubby hole where it's going nowhere anyway.
That's the good.
Varoooom!
It was one of those two unrelated failures at the same time.
Go figure.
Wife is happy. I'm still her hero. :jester:
 
C'mon down here then. Diesela needs a motivated care giver. :devilgrin:
 
DrEntropy said:
C'mon down here then. Diesela needs a motivated care giver. :devilgrin:
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Hey...watch out I got friends in Fla. Gearheads too. :devilgrin:

We loved our 300 SDL. Sadly it bit the dust in a 35mph T bone.
Diamond blue with blue interior. Euro lighting.
Lady ran a stop sign and I turned that Tarus wagon into a horseshoe.
The front of the Benz collapsed all the way to the windshield.
Poor old diesel was shoved UNDER the car. It was still chugging when the police arrived. I knew the officers and suggested they hand me a service pistol to put the "horse" out of it's misery.
They smiled but declined.
Not a scratch on me. Those crush zones work. From the windshield back it looked like new.
I replaced it with the current 420SEL. We like 'em big.
We've had a 240D we called the Euro Trash Taxi and a 240C
I called the Deuce Coupe. The coupe was two toned. Beige top
with gray body and beige interior. It was a looker. MB sent
it to the states as a touring car for their rep. in 1971.
Ya can't beat an S class for grand touring. IMHO
 
I went for reliability.

If this one croaks I'll hunt down another. The only thing more reliable than POINTS in a dizzy is no need of a dizzy at all. :smirk:
 
DrEntropy said:
I went for reliability.

If this one croaks I'll hunt down another. The only thing more reliable than POINTS in a dizzy is no need of a dizzy at all. :smirk:
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I hear ya! Our little 240D was so reliable we'd joke about just
never turning it off. Just let it chug along all night waiting
for us in the morning. Block heater was sweet in the winter too.
Instant heat. :thumbsup:
We still miss ol Becky.
 
"Block heater"?!?! In South Carolina?!?! C'mon now... you just plugged it in to show off, yes? Even in your winter that thing shoulda cranked over without needin' a block heater. :shocked:
 
DrEntropy said:
"Block heater"?!?! In South Carolina?!?! C'mon now... you just plugged it in to show off, yes? Even in your winter that thing shoulda cranked over without needin' a block heater. :shocked:
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Here in Pumpkintown we usually get a single digit day or two each winter. Ol Becky wasn't fond of cranking below 20 degrees or so.
 
Her way of tellin' ya: It's too cold outside,~STAY HOME!~ :smirk:
 
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