[RichDiesel]

I've found it under Engine -> 14 INTAKE AND EXHAUST MANIFOLDS -> 030 INTAKE MANIFOLD

Thanks, I dug around in the EPC for about an hour and did not see this or maybe just missed it. I'll have to look again.

BTW I ordered parts from mbpartsource.com and their prices are about the lowest I've seen. MB of Laredo I think

 

[RichDiesel]

I've tried the Febi one too, and they didn't work. I got very lucky with my CPS'. There is a company in the Netherlands who has a test M137 engine, which actually never ran. So I fetched the two CPS and the crankshaft position sensor from them for rather cheap

Does your dealer actually ship things to you?! I need to go to the dealer and collect it from them.

You'll recognize the short bolts when you take them out XD, just remember where they went. I used a piece or cardboard to push them through, so you'll have the layout of the bolts

You might not be in the US, I don't know. But in the US there are several dealers around the country that sell parts online, some are cheaper than others, it all depends on their markup structure. The dealer MB of Covington (LA) has about the best prices so I have been ordering some MB parts from them if other vendors don't have either aftermarket or the genuine MB parts. I ended up buying the parts I needed for this project off mbpartsource.com, a dealer in Laredo, TX as their prices were less than Covington. One part (brake vac hose) is on order from Germany.

I use the cardboard trick on my jobs with lots of screws and bolts, works well! You can make a diagram on it then know exactly where the bits go.

 

[RichDiesel]

I got the CL600 back together yesterday after taking the intake manifold (as associated parts) off to replace a cam position sensor. Missing 3 or 4 random bolts that I recall were not there and I forgot to order them when I got the other parts, but it is OK for now. Car started right up, was blowing enough smoke to clear out the mosquitoes all around but soon cleared up and was running fine and clean. I think there was a lot of fuel in the catalysts from it not running well with the cam sensor bad. Took it out for a short drive to get some fuel (instrument cluster missing so didn't know how much was in the tank). Car ran great (OH WOW!!!!), no issues whatsoever. I scanned it and no fault codes with the engine so I call the job a success!

The tires on the car have good tread but are older so I am reluctant to really drive it hard until I get those sorted, but for easy jaunts should be good for now. A few more things to organize, and give it a good cleaning, and it will be an awesome ride.

 

[tim687]

Amazing to read this man! I really hope she will thread you well!

The AMG body actually looks really good in combination with these wheels.
Keep it up!

 

[RichDiesel]

The AMG body actually looks really good in combination with these wheels.
Keep it up!

I’m coming around to these wheels on this silver car. My black CL500 has the chrome 5-spoke wheels that look very good on the black but I don’t think those would look good on this car, or these silver wheels on the black car.

 

[RichDiesel]

I got the new cam position sensor installed and the manifold and everything back in place with some new parts for the PCV tube. Car ran fine after blowing some big smoke for a bit after starting it up, but it soon cleared out. No fault codes. Drove it a bit and had some issues like it was in limp mode but a restart cleared that out, and I found a loose battery connector so I think it was losing electrons too. Drove it around last week and it seemed fine. Drove it again and it was doing fine on a little trip to the grocery store, then on the way back it was down on power although it was running OK.

A scan shows faults again for the right cam position sensor AND now for both upstream lambda sensors on that side too (0V showing on the scan for those two sensors, zylinders 1-3 and 4-6), so I am thinking the right bank is not running at all, the ECU has shut off fuel and sparks. I vaguely recall the guy I bought the car from saying he had replaced an O2 sensor, and I just replaced the cam sensor, so not clear what is going on. I tried to trace the wires and it looks like both O2 sensors run to the right side behind the engine under the throttle body then up into the wiring loom on back left side thence to the ECU, and the cam sensor goes into the loom right near the connector to it. Nothing apparent as to any breaks in the wiring, all looked good. I'm quite sure all those sensors would not fail at the same time so not sure what is going on. Very perplexing. I did not disconnect the wiring connector to the ECU, maybe I should do that and spray everything down with contact cleaner, see if that does any good. Maybe whatever connectors for those 3 things are goobered up.

Oh, and it looks like indeed the oil cooler is leaking off the back of the engine and dripping oil onto the exhaust downpipe on the right side, so there's that too... 😬🤑👎🏦

 

[tim687]

If you fire up starfinder WebETM you can get an overview of which wire goes where. You'll be able to trace down every single wire going to the ECU.

I've done this on mine and it's about half a day of work, but it will make sure that you are actually making a proper connection.

I wouldn't drive for too long without fixing the bank not firing issue, I've just come to the conclusion that my cats are ruined and that they need to be replaced (with air?)

These cars are very good in eating up catalytic converters

Could you create a video recording of the oil dripping onto the exhaust?