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Originally Posted by Charlies84380SE
CS,
You do not have to rotate the engine to TCD # 1 to replace the distributor cap! That is for timing the car. Just use a screw driver and push down and turn 90 degrees each of 2 hold down bolt heads on the sides of the Dist cap. It lifts right off. and so does the rotor. Both have notches that will only let you put them on one way. I suggest that you do not remove the plug wires until you have the new cap in place. then replace them one at a time to show you where each one goes. The cap is numbered and I hope your plug wires have the little white bands on them with corresponding numbers to the numbers on the cap. THEN you can replace the plug wires with the new ones one at a time.
I was lucky, my wires and both ends of each were fine, no cracks on the rubber ends or carbon marks in the metal ends. I have a dist. cap and rotor on order.
I'm off on a short drive with the MB!
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Thats great news
I don't know if the wires are numbered but I numbered the dis boots to correspond to the distrib #
So I'll just do one at a time & since I have in a sense #'d the wires
then I should have no prob matching it to new distrib...
Got my German Import order today
nicely packed
Got my OVR & Flosser ceramicmfuses made in Germany
8a have brass metal...nice fuses
16A have copper
Yeah!
OVR is made in Hungary though???
has a 10A littel blade fuse on top
I bought a flosser 10A 32V blade fuse but littel is a good fuse
Hope the Hungary ovr relay is OK? It was $51.50 so less than the rest
They didn't have the 25 in Flosser so got 25's from Rusty...
Mann Filter in box
Hood pad is light
goodness thing folded up in a manageable box
So today is fuse day
Tomoorow hopefully the wires & dist & rotor will come with rest fuses
& vacumn hoses...
Changed all white & red fuses & OVR
Should I be upset about the Hungarian fuse
Was supposed to be Kaehler is that Hungary?
Would spend the $12 more if a german is better
Oooh
Dropped a fuse under in fuse panel box where wires are
Can't see it
That shouldn't hurt anything I hope?
Started it to see if things worked
Started fine
Got only up to 90 C
idles was about same as last time
1200 going up to maybe 1500 as it warmed
then down to about 950 in park when warm
Only thing I noted & not sure why I didn't change it last time I checked
but there was a 25A fuse in a designated 8 A spot 12
It controls the idle contro; (cruise control) instrument cluster, diagnostic, temperature -vacumn switch,stop turm signal & tach so its a heavy weight
tachs always worked so guess the rest have
but why the bigger fuse in it...
Guess I;ll know right away if it blows.
Perfected my fuse operation
got them out & in fast
brushed contacts w brass brush but they weren't corroded
all clean..
Thing is temp seemed a bit cooler
Anyway least it got to run a lil more techron thru its veins