Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:47:07 -0500
Reply-To: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
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From: Tom Hargrave <thargrav@HIWAAY.NET>
Subject: Re: Off topic update
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To date I've owned 31 Mercedes and I have worked on all of them. The oldest a 1959 220S. The newest a 2012 S550, currently broken in my driveway because I'm having a time pulling the wires off the plugs. The plug boots have fused themselves to the insulators and they are a real pain to remove. I'm on the third one and the boot came apart, leaving most on the insulator.
On the Mercedes 260 belt, you'll have to wiggle it past the fan blades and (from memory) the water pump is driven by the back of the belt. Some of the routing is by feel but I'm sure you know your way around engines.
The rattle might be the AC compressor even though it shows up at the tensioner.
Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Alistair Bell
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 6:58 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Off topic update
Hi,
Yes, has the tensioner. And it was making a rattle, needs to be replaced I think. But fixed the rattle bu adding a washer to upper mount.
I hope the belt replacement is as easy as you say tom, sure looks like little room for my hands :-)
Oh and I love the single wiper and it’s droid like working.
Alistair
> On Mar 27, 2020, at 4:26 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> The 2.6 is a variant of their 3.0 inline 6 and it is a very good engine.
>
> That one should have a spring loaded idler pulley and it should be one of the easiest belts you've changed in a long time.
>
> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
> www.kegkits.com – Electric Brewery Info www.towercooler.com – Beer
> Tower Cooler http://goo.gl/niRzVw - My Amazon Store
> www.brew-control.com – Electric Brewery Marketing and Direct Sales
> http://www.hackpilot.com/roadkill/ - A little twisted humor
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> Behalf Of Alistair Bell
> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:34 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Off topic update
>
> Oh I believe you tom.
>
> Plastics on this merc, which at the time was lauded for its huge research and development budget, a new world car , haven’t aged much better than the plastics our vans. I could go on...
>
> But the inline six is so nice, and boy does it come right the way forward in the engine compartment. I’m wondering ( haven’t looked into it ) about belt change up there, surely you don’t have to remove rad?
>
> Alistair
>
>> On Mar 26, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>
>> You haven't worked on a difficult Mercedes until you've replace the main blower motor in a 1975 Mercedes 240D with factory AC.
>>
>> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
>> www.kegkits.com – Electric Brewery Info www.towercooler.com – Beer
>> Tower Cooler http://goo.gl/niRzVw - My Amazon Store
>> www.brew-control.com – Electric Brewery Marketing and Direct Sales
>> http://www.hackpilot.com/roadkill/ - A little twisted humor
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
>> Behalf Of Alistair Bell
>> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:19 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Off topic update
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Figured that during this time the mods will allow me a Friday topic Thursday.
>>
>> Three of us at work, our welder at home. The shipping dept ( one guy) isolated in mezzanine. Owner and general do everything guy moved his computer up to another office from the one he shared with me. I go into work at 5pm, the two others leave after Decon a half hour before.
>>
>> I work alone during evening .
>>
>> So I have the days free at home on the farm. My son and his partner are bugging out from Montreal while they have the chance. They will be quarantined in a tiny house that’s on the farm. Yes, one of those tiny houses.
>>
>> And I had success today fixing another car. I bought a merc 190e 2.6 a year ago and it came with a really bad cold start problem. Crank and crank and after a few repeated attempts it would start roughly and finally smooth out.
>>
>> Classic, as I understand, overload protection relay fault. I installed a new one and no improvement.
>> Thing is, the location of the relay is awkward and was never quite sure of relay seating right. So finally, today I pulled battery and the computer to get the relay base visible. Yup, it was free floating. Got it back up and installed the relay and car starts like it should!
>>
>> The more I work on this car the more I like my van. Every thing that can be made more complicated is made more complicated. The interior air vents a great example.
>>
>> Hope all of you are making the best of this situation.
>>
>> Alistair
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