[R129 SL] STALLING

[Adam Gage]

Patience, everyone, patience please.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: George Simpson 
  To: SL Mailing List 
  Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 3:37 PM
  Subject: Re: [R129 SL] STALLING


  That sounds very similar to the problem I had earlier in the year. At first I also thought of fuel and changed the filter but it did it again. In the end, M-B Cognac found it for me - the inside terminals of the two distributor caps and the rotor tip were corroded/consumed. They could probably have been cleaned up but I went for new pieces and it has been perfect ever since.

  George Simpson
  Cognac, France

  1990 500SL



  Deneal Schilmeister (iMac) wrote: 
On 2/28/05 10:45 AM, "william hughes" <jennian at ziplink.net> wrote:

  MY 95 SL500 HAS BEEN OFF THE ROAD FOR THE WINTER
A FEW WEEKS AGO I WAS WARMING IT UP AND LEFT IT RUNNING FOR ABOUT A HALF
HOUR - IT STALLED AND WHEN I TRIED TO RESTART IT HUFFED AND PUFFED AND
SLIGHT BACK FIRE BUT WOULD NOT START - NEXT DAY STARED LIKE A CHARM
LAST WEEK I TOOK IT ON THE ROAD FOR A RUN - STARTED PERFECTLY, RAN WELL
UNTILL ABOUT AFTER TWENTY MINUTES IT STARTED TO LOOSE POWER AND
EVENTUALLY STALLED - AGAIN COULDN'T START - HAD IT TOWED THEN NEXT DAT
STARTED LIKE A CHARM
PLEASE HELP
    
Hi Bill;
While you give the age of your car, you did not give the mileaes on the
engine, which would be a help in guessing the problem.

The first thing (and least expensive thing) would be to make sure the fuel
is fresh and perhaps drain the old fuel and refill, adding a bottle of
Techron.  Then DRIVE THE CAR at highway speeds for a while.

If that doesn't cure the problem, THEN I would look into replacing the fuel
filter or go deeper into the problem.

Good luck.
 
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