You are correct, a half curse.
A Cuban friend of mine taught me a great inventive curse in Espanol, but
I should probably not post it here. I think there are lots of great
curses in Espanol, I need to learn more of them. A Merkin guy cursing a
German in Espanol!
--R
WILTON wrote:
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"
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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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