Pressed down air meter plate - flooded ?
 

W126

I was warming up the engine to do a compression test and cleaning the air meter plate/body with throttle body cleaner. Thinking that the plate and engine speed were connected, I stupidly pressed down on the plate with my finger to inject more cleaner past the plate. I was very gentle and only pressed it down 2mm, but the engine immediately died. It would not restart after 3 10 second attempts. I simply flooded it, right?

Since then, I have pulled the fuel pump relay and all the plugs. Then, I did my compression test and will not reassemble until I get my timing chain in.

My compression readings looked good. 178 psi for the low and 184 psi for the high.

The other good news was that none of my cam lobes seems to be bad. One had a very then score line around it's rotational axis, but it was about as wide as a hair and I couldn't feel it with my finger-tip.

pressing the air/mix plate down would just give it too much air and will cut out thats normal and would not flood it

Pressing the airflow plate will not add air. The amount of air is determined by the combined effort of the throttle and the idle valve. The airflow plate moves in relation to the amount of air being asked to flow through it determining the fuel quantity required.

Pushing the plate down does stall the motor from too much fuel but if everything was right it would start right up.