The 2.6 is a variant of their 3.0 inline 6 and it is a very good engine.

That one should have a spring loaded idler pulley and it should be one of the easiest belts you've changed in a long time.

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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Alistair Bell
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2020 11:34 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Off topic update

Oh I believe you tom.

Plastics on this merc, which at the time was lauded for its huge research and development budget, a new world car , haven’t aged much better than the plastics our vans. I could go on...

But the inline six is so nice, and boy does it come right the way forward in the engine compartment. I’m wondering ( haven’t looked into it ) about belt change up there, surely you don’t have to remove rad?

Alistair 

> On Mar 26, 2020, at 6:37 PM, Tom Hargrave <thargrav@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> 
> You haven't worked on a difficult Mercedes until you've replace the main blower motor in a 1975 Mercedes 240D with factory AC.
> 
> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
> www.kegkits.com – Electric Brewery Info www.towercooler.com – Beer 
> Tower Cooler http://goo.gl/niRzVw - My Amazon Store 
> www.brew-control.com – Electric Brewery Marketing and Direct Sales 
> http://www.hackpilot.com/roadkill/ - A little twisted humor
> 
> 
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> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On 
> Behalf Of Alistair Bell
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:19 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Off topic update
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Figured that during this time the mods will allow me a Friday topic Thursday.
> 
> Three of us at work, our welder at home. The shipping dept ( one guy) isolated in mezzanine. Owner and general do everything guy moved his computer up to another office from the one he shared with me. I go into work at 5pm, the two others leave after Decon a half hour before.
> 
> I work alone during evening .
> 
> So I have the days free at home on the farm. My son and his partner are bugging out from Montreal while they have the chance. They will be quarantined in a tiny house that’s on the farm. Yes, one of those tiny houses.
> 
> And I had success today fixing another car. I bought a merc 190e 2.6 a year ago and it came with a really bad cold start problem. Crank and crank and after a few repeated attempts it would start roughly and finally smooth out.
> 
> Classic, as I understand, overload protection relay fault. I installed a new one and no improvement.
> Thing is, the location of the relay is awkward and was never quite sure of relay seating right. So finally,  today I pulled battery and the computer to get the relay base visible. Yup, it was free floating. Got it back up and installed the relay and car starts like it should!
> 
> The more I work on this car the more I like my van. Every thing that can be made more complicated is made more complicated. The interior air vents a great example.
> 
> Hope all of you are making the best of this situation. 
> 
> Alistair
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