Pagoda SL Group
W113 Pagoda SL Group => Electrical and Instruments => Topic started by: n/a on March 08, 2006, 21:01:47
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Hello, I obtained a M.S.D.61A multi spark ignition in a trade & have installed it in my car(66 230 euro). I am running points & have already been able to set my spark plug gap @ .50/1000. I don't really notice any horsepower gain(why would I?) but the car has absoutly smoothed out at idle & acceleration is as smooth as can be! I havent driven it enough to check milage(snow)but it should pick up a little. Has anybody else tried one of these? I wouldn't have done it but the new gas is crap especially the winter mix.
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sorry but the gap is .050 not .50. Sorry!
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I kinda liked the gap of ½ of one thousands (of an inch, I presume?)
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Originally posted by theengineer
I kinda liked the gap of ½ of one thousands (of an inch, I presume?)
I think that's how mine was gapped when I bought it. Definitely some creative stuff was going on in many places.
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Chad: My car was owned by a contractor who had bought it as a present for his wife. She only drove it to the golf course on nice days. Problem was, the car leaked so much oil that the ground keeper asked her to clean up the parking spot or not to bring the car any more. The owner brought the car to a "qualified MB Mechanic" (Ha!) in Squim/WA. I have the invoice. The car still leaked. Then the owner brought it to the local MB shop here in town. After much work, it still leaked oil and the invoice was marked:"Oil leaks unrepairable" I also have that invoice. I bought the car and for a while I wasn't very happy: Many oil leaks, wrong parts installed, mis-wired, mis-adusted, locks not working, parts missing, tranny shifting rough. Took me two years. Runs pretty decent now. Leaks less than my Toyota which leaks very little. I still have a steel pan under the engine, but leakage is down to maybe two drops in two weeks. I drive it often now, when the weather is nice, and it runs fine and shifts smooth. Not a bad little car now.
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I went back & looked at my feeler gages & it is .50 & so far it is running great.