Part of the curse still applies - for using a slide that breaks so easily.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Thomas" <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Windows and motors, etc.
WOW that is great news, now I can repair the one I took off the car and
put it on my son's car, which has the same problem. I did not know!!!
I rescind my curse of the Benz engineer.
--R
WILTON wrote:
'Don't have to replace entire assembly to replace a broken little
plastic window slide. I've replaced three of them on the original
assemblies (one on my now deceased 80 240D and two on each rear door
of my 91 350SDL). The little plastic slides each come with a new
copper rivet for mounting - 'can't remember where I got 'em; last two
may have been from Rusty - didn't know him for the 240D. Shipping
probably cost more than the slides (Rusty? Don't you have 'em?). I
removed the assemblies from the doors, drilled out the old rivets and
peened the new rivets in place on a bench; others, I think, have
reported peening/installing them with the assemblies in the doors.
Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Thomas"
<richthomas79td...@constructivity.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 4:37 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Windows and motors, etc.
Tore into the SD this weekend to see what the problem was with the
passenger window. First took out the switches from the console
(thanks Wilton for the primer on how to do that, comes apart easily
and quickly), took them apart, and cleaned them. Still no go but the
switches work well now. Its amazing how much gunk was in them. I
took pictures of the process, I'll put that up on my web site sometime.
Took the door panel off, had 12V at the motor wire block so figured
the motor was trashed. Took the regulator out and of course the
little plastic slide was cracked (I curse the engineer who designed a
riveted-on plastic element that breaks and you have to buy a whole
assembly), so thought maybe that was the problem -- it was jammed up
on that. No, took the motor off the regulator and still no spin. So
to the parts box with all the stuff I scavenged off a junker a few
weeks back. Found a good RF regulator with a motor that was rusty,
so took a motor/gearbox off another one (LF) and see that the motors
are specific to each window (L/Rt, F/Rr). The rears have smaller
gears to drive the lift arm. So take the good motor off the LF
gearbox to put on the good (original) RF gearbox and the junker
regulator. Cleaned things up a bit, lubed the whole deal, and put it
back together, parts from 3 regulators. The gearbox cover is riveted
on, but the cover snaps off easily while also snapping off the rivet
(or it might be a pin from the gearbox housing, whatever). So anyway
I drilled a couple out and used little sheet metal screws to put the
cover back on. The housing is just pot metal so that is not too hard
to do. Put it all back together (that is no fun, trying to get the
plastic things in the tracks and all the bolts back in their right
places), greased up the whole deal and it works great now. Good
thing I did an anticipatory junkyard picking.
Decided to clean the seat switch since I had the door apart, it has
been a bit balky too. Took it apart, it is a complicated little
bugger. Has 8 little ball bearings to provide pressure on springs
and provide a centering force. Managed to keep everything pretty
much together while spraying it all with electrical cleaner, which
got the little copper bits pretty clean. Used some white lithium
grease as some "glue" to hold the ball bearings on the springs while
putting it all back together. It's amazing how much better it works
now.
Had it almost buttoned up when a big thunderstorm rolled in, looks
like it might rain a bit longer. But the window works now so mama
will be happy.
On a side note, on Friday evening she says, "There's a dead deer
under the azalea bushes in front." So I go out to look, and sho nuff
there is a dead deer dragged up under the azalea bushes, and about
half covered up with leaves. I had noticed a bunch of tracks in the
yard (it is all sandy, no grass) and the dogs were very interested in
something Fri morning when we did our paper walkies. Inspect the
dear and see claw marks on back legs and bite punctures, and hair
scraped off the hip. The deer was a young one, a doe maybe not even
a year old, not much bigger than our dogs, if even. A big cat got
it, I am thinking the panther is back. Was not clear what injury
killed it, usually the cats will bite the neck and get the spine or
the throat, but that looked OK. So anyway daughter and I dragged it
off into the woods where I found the other dead dear a few months
back that the panther had killed. Checked yesterday morning, the
deer was all covered up with leaves and stuff, I moved some of that
that and it was half eaten, I guess the cat found it where I dragged
it. Looked around for tracks and see cat tracks but smaller than the
panther, so I guess it was a bobcat got the deer. Did not check on
it today, but wifey says it is starting to stink. I guess the
buzzards will be on it tomorrow.
Life in the fringe....
--R
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