loosening smog pump
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Looks like one on top and one on bottom (inside the tensioning wheel). If you don't have it the cd from MBUSA is helpful.david7212 said:
Here are the PDFs
View attachment 14-250.pdf
View attachment 14-260.pdf
Good luck
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For an 84 380SL in California, yes, you have to have one.david7212 said:
You afraid of having the CHP pull you over popping the hood and asking "that thing smog legal aint't it." I'd rather not got into the money, time, and effort to get my car to pass smog after having to go to the DMV every two months for a year to get temp reg tags. No i'll spare you and especially me the trouble. I don't run it for two reasons 1- the smog pump has the potential to fail, which makes the pulley it's attached to not so happy. 2-Spinning another pully costs power, and I do run the smog pump once every two years, I'm not that bad of a guy, am I?
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Using that logic, you should also disconnect your alternator, air conditioner and water pump. They do have a tendency to fail, and those extra pulleys take power to run....daryn said:
the smog pump is auxillary, and the AC is disconnected in lieu of repair. I have thrown an alternator belt going 85mph up a hill, so I carry a spare belt, it also drives the water pump and it don't wanna warp the aluminum head. I have driven or been aquainted with my car much longer than a lot of you guys. The smog pump does have the tendency to seize after awhile, don't believe me, good for you. My old man had the thing seize on him, I don't make remarks casually, I do it because I know a thing or two about these suckers, especially things that have failed. Take a look at a smog pump sometime and tell me the thing isn't a piece of crap. The thing isn't very complicated, but it has a couple design flaw, the original one had a plastic wind vane that broke and seized up. But don't believe me! One day you'll hear the banshee cry from under the hood and maybe it will be the revenge of the smog pump. My car wasn't built with a smogpump on it it was put on a part of the emissions for cali.
well...i put my belt on ..had to go with a size larger than what was called for to get it on...now my 02 sensor light is another story...changed sensor..light still comes on..how does it know..old, new, working or not? is this suppose to tel lmy fuel injection to not run so rich?
All I can say is take a look at how a smog pump works and get back to me. It is one of the few non-german parts on the car, and guess which parts have broken. The AC isn't german either, so. I put over eleven thousand miles on my car last year, I bet that's more than half of you guys combined. How many of you guys got the gusto to drive your car 500miles in a single day. I drive my car and love it, and won't let something stupid like the smog pump slow me down, and that's the last thing I'm saying about emission untill december. Oh yeah, I have to pull my smog pump apart to get it working again, it's seized as we speak.
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I could only do 5K. It took January and February to sort out the performance issues and it really didn't get warm until April or so and the CC servo is a little farther down the list of things to be done. I also lost all of November and December (got it back on the road the 31st and dropped the top for an end of the year cruise!) while the upholstery guy jerked me around. Five Hundred miles? I didn't have the need to drive that far in one day last year. But I would if I did.daryn said:
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O.K.daryn said:
83 280 SL- 5 speed-The PIG
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Wow. Was there a special on assumptions at Target today?daryn said:
"An assumption is a proposition that is taken for granted, in other words, that is treated for the sake of a given discussion as if it were known to be true"
You would lose your bet....but can you lend me some gusto?
Drove from san fran to san diego and did a return trip home, that's 1500 highway miles. Plus various trippin' of undisclosed nature. In the same period I put around 7000 miles on my bike, I do nothin but drive drive drive. I'm a nutball!
I know a lot of peaple keep their cars cloistered away from danger, I have gone way past that point it's all about driving now.
I know a lot of peaple keep their cars cloistered away from danger, I have gone way past that point it's all about driving now.
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