From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Sat Nov 22 17:53:56 2008 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Sunday, November 23 2008 Volume 01 : Number 2910 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: [db] What's this now? [db] 97 E320 Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:48:00 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: Re: [db] What's this now? When I fried my wiring trying to jump start that dead car the ground wire heading to the power relay had been damaged... as always, check and clean all connections, and replace those mercedes fuses first.... john ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://wagoneers.com/fotos/fotomeister/ SAVE power, use LINUX: http://johnmeister.com/tmcp.pdf SAVE yourself: http://freegift.com SAVE fuel, use synthetics: http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, ejpomeroy-at-qtm.net wrote: # Concur with John and others - check your fuse box first. I had a fuse with # hairline crack in it, gave exactly the same kind of symptoms where my # insturment gauges would just quit then come back normally and when they # quit, other lights would dimly come on in the dash due to ground loops # where non working instruments were trying to draw current wrong path. # # Edward # # > 190Dt. Every once in a while, the heater and turn signals power off. # > After a few seconds, the antilock light flashes for a second, and # > everything comes back. I replaced the overvoltage relay last year, I # > suppose I could do it again... # > # > Mike Frank # ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:53:03 -0800 (PST) From: john Subject: [db] 97 E320 too bad this isn't the Diesel at this price: http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/930086010.html the front end damage doesn't look too severe... but this is in that range of years that are likely to have "issues", right Mike? :) seats look nice... heading down into Seattle with a tow dolly in an hour or so to get my lastest FSJ... that '80 J10... john ----- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Snohomish, Washington -o|||||o- where Jeeps don't rust, they mold http://johnmeister.com/fotomeister - Trust Jesus: http://freegift.com SAVE power, avoid viruses, use LINUX: http://johnmeister.com/tmcp.pdf SAVE fuel, use synthetics: http://AMSOIL.com/redirect.cgi?zo=283461 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2910 **********************************