lindenengineering
Well-known member
Well I suppose I have to state that the black death scourge has been found on an OM642 in a 2011 Sprinter. Its my first in an NCV3! (906 chassis to you darlings!)
Found by accident growing under them thar rubber valve cover sound deadening covers!
Background on this was new Sprinter owner purchased a used (second hand 2500 van) and presumably started to do a camper conversion on it!
Running an OT 1 main wire totally unprotected directly connected to the vehicle battery to his recently "DIY house power inverter lecky system the cable rubbed through touching down on the frame and it all went "LIVE!!
With all this arcy sparky going on it took out the PCM and the SCR/DEF control module just to name a few of the high dollar bits!
Since MB does not release the string codes to us mere mechanic mortals in fear that someone might nick a van (who would want to nick an old white van :FFS
) I shipped it to the dealer. After a week in their shop I get a call, "Hey Dennis I went to encode the injectors on this "jobie" says Tim the Tech and there is black death under the covers" !
Oh well we can handle that just get it running mate!
Well it will be another week we still have a few modules to change out waiting for stuff to come in!~Oh Ah! $$$$$$
Now this is specimen #2!
Specimen #1 this year has been a 2008 906 where the owner installed his "unprotected system" but went "mad with self tappers" !!!!
Punching through the battery wires to his newly installed house system, it too went live ground!----- eventually!
In that instance the battery exploded taking out the fuse box and the EIS system.
Short of all the MB string codes not only for the security system but for the ABS/Traction control system I shipped that one to the dealer after having found the cause buried under the floor! Dealer had to get some of the info from Germany to re-instate it!
The dealer bill alone was just short of $1500--Still its only money!
I suppose in closing this post once upon a time customers often paid in cash, these days only weed sellers and growers do that and the bills are often crumpled and well used!
But there was a time when a large wodges of newly printed bills would pass hands and the "magic feel" , even the smell of new money enjoyed as you counted it!
Whether it be US Dollars with Mr Franklin looking at you, or accompanied by HM and the ER11, or even dare I mention Fundador Senor Simon Bolivar smiling at you in his Milliones de Boliveres the feel is the same.
Shame because today its just the sound of plastic sliding through a machine and a hurried signature scribble --well its only money indicated by a few numbers on an electronic print out!
So when you guys are hacking/whacking screws into metal with "gay abandon" (gay in the old fashioned meaning of the word) you can always say hey what is your wallet--Capital idea these credit cards!
Take care and be careful for crying out loud !
Cheers Dennis
Found by accident growing under them thar rubber valve cover sound deadening covers!
Background on this was new Sprinter owner purchased a used (second hand 2500 van) and presumably started to do a camper conversion on it!
Running an OT 1 main wire totally unprotected directly connected to the vehicle battery to his recently "DIY house power inverter lecky system the cable rubbed through touching down on the frame and it all went "LIVE!!
With all this arcy sparky going on it took out the PCM and the SCR/DEF control module just to name a few of the high dollar bits!
Since MB does not release the string codes to us mere mechanic mortals in fear that someone might nick a van (who would want to nick an old white van :FFS
) I shipped it to the dealer. After a week in their shop I get a call, "Hey Dennis I went to encode the injectors on this "jobie" says Tim the Tech and there is black death under the covers" !Oh well we can handle that just get it running mate!
Well it will be another week we still have a few modules to change out waiting for stuff to come in!~Oh Ah! $$$$$$
Now this is specimen #2!
Specimen #1 this year has been a 2008 906 where the owner installed his "unprotected system" but went "mad with self tappers" !!!!
Punching through the battery wires to his newly installed house system, it too went live ground!----- eventually!
In that instance the battery exploded taking out the fuse box and the EIS system.
Short of all the MB string codes not only for the security system but for the ABS/Traction control system I shipped that one to the dealer after having found the cause buried under the floor! Dealer had to get some of the info from Germany to re-instate it!
The dealer bill alone was just short of $1500--Still its only money!
I suppose in closing this post once upon a time customers often paid in cash, these days only weed sellers and growers do that and the bills are often crumpled and well used!
But there was a time when a large wodges of newly printed bills would pass hands and the "magic feel" , even the smell of new money enjoyed as you counted it!
Whether it be US Dollars with Mr Franklin looking at you, or accompanied by HM and the ER11, or even dare I mention Fundador Senor Simon Bolivar smiling at you in his Milliones de Boliveres the feel is the same.
Shame because today its just the sound of plastic sliding through a machine and a hurried signature scribble --well its only money indicated by a few numbers on an electronic print out!
So when you guys are hacking/whacking screws into metal with "gay abandon" (gay in the old fashioned meaning of the word) you can always say hey what is your wallet--Capital idea these credit cards!
Take care and be careful for crying out loud !
Cheers Dennis
