That car really is a frankenheap with all that patchwork! Do you have any recent photos of this car? I'm sure Ive seen it before but that was years ago. I need to get motivated to get my 220D back on the road. I started with an extensive trunk floor and quarter panel rust repair project 5 years ago but never finished. It doesn't help that I now have a 123 240D to replace the 115 as my daily driver. I really miss driving the 220D.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:44 PM, Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> wrote: I stopped by a muffler shop Friday and nabbed some cut-offs. (2-3 inch pieces of new pipe.) I also bought more flux-core welding wire for the Hobart. Ten pounds this time, $55 for the 0.035". I'd lost a rubber exhaust hanger with the muffler Thursday. As I was at the U-Pull I got a couple more, along with a rather nice trunk mat and carpet from a 114 gasser. Saturday it rained heavily all day, so I had to wait 'til today to fix the muffler. I put the rear of the car up on ramps and selected the best piece from my scrap exhaust collection to collar the break. I glued the dislodged rubber bumper (114 987 00 39, aka 479076-28) back to the frame, as the rubber 'tit' had torn half off. (Shoe Goo, of course.) I had to notch the new collar in order to get the best fit to the ratty tailpipe, and its prior welds. I didn't need to remove the exhaust system, lowering the back was sufficient. The new collar was somewhat larger than the exhaust pipe, so I welded a strip onto the pipe remains so that I could then weld the collar to that strip. I welded the new collar onto the muffler, then welded the collar to the exhaust pipe. I had to grind and re-weld a number of times in spots to cure exhaust leaks. I found another hole in the exhaust pipe and had to weld a patch over that. That took nearly as long to do as the muffler, because it was much less accessible. The whole job was something like three and a half hours. (The off-the-car part was _so_ easy, but underneath the car, not so much.) The muffler ended up a bit cocked so that the rubber hangers and bumpers don't fit as well as they did. Oops. I broke a rubber hanger, but I got two Friday so I was still OK. Of note is that the Hobart wire was much shinier and smoother than the cheap Harbor Freight stuff, and seemed to work better. It was a bit too large for the job (the old stuff was 0.030"), but surprisingly it fit through the gun's 0.030" tip. (I should get the correct tip, which Big R carries. I also will need some more 0.024" bare wire for the Miller, I noticed it was getting low when I tried to borrow its 0.030" tip [which doesn't fit].) -- Jim _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
