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OM606 harness replacement-Extra wire?
My 95 was running a little rough, so I went ahead and removed/cleaned the tabk and replaced all three fuel filters. The car started fine, and ran alright, but had no power.
With the filters replaced, the car ran fine, but out of the blue the engine stalled while traveling at 35mph and would not restart. A little looking around led me to the wiring harness which was in pretty bad shape, particularly at the various plugs where the copper was exposed and rubbing on adjacent wires. I removed the entire harness and installed the new one, but have this extra wire that I cannot figure out what to do with. My original harness appeared to have this "extra" wire very cleanly cut inside the large plastic wire sleeve. Any ideas? This wire was obviously cut or fell off quite a while ago, but I'm afraid to put the manifold back on and realize that I in fact needed that extra wire. In the picture, the wire is coming up from the master harness, from, the third port down from the firewall. Jon |
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Maybe a more specific question will get me some help.
Does every car use every wire from the harness? I ordered my harness through parts.com using my VIN, can't imagine this is the wrong part. Jon |
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I've seen plenty of wire harnesses that have extra wires.
if your old harness was neatly tied off at that wire, I'd tie that wire off. however, you could also go to a mercedes dealer and see if the wire is in the EPC... in your pic, I see a wire directly below the one you are holding that looks like it would match, no?
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I have the same car and the same spare wire.
Just ignore it.
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1995 E300 Diesel |
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Good, I'm glad that I'm not missing something.
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95 E300 D 235k |
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Just a follow up for future reference as I figured out what this 'extra' plug is for.
It is for the rack position sensor which is non existent on the OM606.910 IP's. The OM606.912 and .962 have this sensor fitted to the IP so the plug has a home.
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1995 E300 Diesel |
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update
Thanks for following up on the extra wire connector. How does the car run now that is has the new harness?
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2009 E320 Bluetec 117,000 1995 E300D 306,000 Sold 1996 Ford Taurus LX 130,000 Sold 1985 300TD Still 225,000 Sold 2016 Ford Fusion 24,900 |
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I have it in my car too, its extra and only has one pin in it.
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2012 BMW X5 (Beef + Granite suspension model) 1995 E300D - The original humming machine (consumed by Flood 2017) 2000 E320 - The evolution (consumed by flood 2017) |
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