For some reason Frosch has decided to have a snit to celebrate her one year anniversary with me. We had gone to the MBCA club spring toss your car up on the lift gathering a few weeks ago and all but the leak in the water pump looked fine. A bit schmutzy, but ok.
I put her up on the ramps this weekend and used a bit of elbow grease to remove detritus so I would have a cleaner ride. Scrub brush, water and Griots degreaser spray (engine cleaner). I think I made her mad, rubbing her back end and she dropped the end of the muffler on me. The retaining strap had rusted through. Rubber bits are still good, but I will change those. Got my parts from Rock Auto today and will get that put to bed in a day or so. But the huge score was hitting the PnP and finding an R107 and C107, as well as a D-jet W116. PARTS GALORE! I got a fuel rail with at least four good injectors, a pair of fog lamps, the missing AUX fan and brace, some trunk carpet out of the smashed R107 (red) that is grey. And the front under fairing parts. The W116 gave me the fuel rail and the proper Bosch fogs. Somebody had done the typical gut the car or break the good stuff, such as tearing off the R107 doors and stripping it. Made a mess of the engine bay as well as the cabin when they removed the hard top (broke the glass) and left the soft top down so everything got wet. Chopped the center console, so I was not able to snag that. The hood pad was in very good condition, so I used my spatula to carefully remove that. When the wind stops and the sun is out, I will remove the hood from Froggy and put that on. Her current pad is very tatty. There was supposed to be a 280C in the lot, and I went looking for it after my great haul, and came upon the C107 coated in lichen. No problem figuring out why it was there. Totally rusted out and full of moss, but the trunk carpet was there, and the console was in pretty good shape. Coolest thing, the car is the same color as Froggy, so the trunk carpet will be correct for the car. The console too. It was probably a euro 1974 model, MBtex and crank windows. At least it was dry inside and the console came out with minor working, but intact and the side carpet is the same as what I already have! I tossed the green carpet in the washer on delicate to remove any skank on it and will give it a good hang dry in a well vented room. I can scrub the console and prep it for paint to match the original interior (factory color is grey) and this will really spiff up Froggy. This will allow me to put the becker in, since the new to me console was not hacked apart in the manner Froggy's is. I picked up a few other bits I will post on Fleabay. Those will more than pay for my out of pocket today. I am a little peeved that instrument clusters seem to attract vandals who tear them apart and break the gauges. I really could use a better Tach/clock combo that will show real numbers instead of just flopping about clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers _______________________________________ 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
