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Originally Posted by ladams4
Hello all and thank you for all of your help with my cold starting problems "GLOW PLUGS" are needed for cold starting!!! I absolutely love my 1980 300D Benz!
Now I have a couple of other questions:
1). I have no heat at all I turn the dial and it does nothing. A/C Blows snowball's
2.) No dash Lights
3.) No speedometer, new cable and still not working.
4.) rear defroster only defrost 1 line in the rear window.
Any help you can give me I would really appreciate
Thank you,
Lind
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*1) I'm afraid you need to do a search on Evil Servo. Sounds like you will need to bypass the servo in favor of a manual valve for coolant flow. Try the search feature above, Google version with "servo bypass" or something similar.
*2) Solder a jumper wire between the two strips of the rheostat. Search that also. To get cluster out remove kick panel above driver's knees and push cluster out from behind. You will have to push in some slack on the speedo cable at the firewall side. Rheostat is white ceramic squarish piece on back.
*3) Hmmmm. Usually a new cable takes care of this. Did you verify that both sides of the cable had the correct ends for your configuration? I think in an '80 that the tranny end is flat and slotted and the speedo end is smaller and square. It is common for the odometer to slip, but speedo is less common.
*4) Too expensive to repair really, unless you want to spring to have a new rear glass installed.