[R129 SL] Sudden Engine miss on my 1996 SL500 - M119 engine

[George Simpson]

True .... vive la difference!!!

George
Cognac
prehistoric 500SL

Jonathan Hodgman wrote:

> FYI, there is no rotor/cap on his 96..it's distributor-less.

>

> Jonathan

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> On 4/16/07, *George Simpson* < george.simpson.r129 at tiscali.fr 

> <mailto:george.simpson.r129 at tiscali.fr>> wrote:

>

>     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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