[R129 SL] Sudden Engine miss on my 1996 SL500 - M119 engine
George Simpson
george.simpson.r129 at tiscali.fr
Mon Apr 16 13:26:21 EDT 2007
George, I had a similar problem just after I got my 500SL. It seemed to
happen just after I had filled up with petrol/gasoline but in the end,
that was a red herring and M-B diagnosed a burnt rotor arm and
distributor cap. Replacing these cured my problem at a cost of Euros 87
= about $120.
George
George Jenner wrote:
> Help! I was driving along with everything normal when suddenly the
> engine began acting weird. It began to act as if it wanted to stall
> upon acceleration and sounded like a cylinder might have dropped from
> the firing order. I filled it up right away with good high test gas
> just to be sure it was not bad gasoline causing the problem. The car
> has about 81K miles and I have not had anything done to the engine
> since I got the car about 3 years ago. I removed the air cleaner and
> associated parts and removed the covers over the coils thinking I
> could get familiar with the ignition parts layout but to my surprise I
> found eight ignition coils where the spark plugs should be.
>
> Does this engine not have spark plugs? Ignition wires? Anything
> resembling the engine setup I am used to seeing?
>
> Has anyone an Idea of what might be ailing this motor? I am
> reasonably confident this is an ignition problem but have no clue
> about how to proceed with an initial diagnostic to try to find out
> what part may be causing my troubles.
>
> I hate not knowing - George Jenner
>
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