Well now...after having sat 48 hours or so, after having braked wicked hard to
miss the 18 wheeler, I go out this morning and there is a puddle of brake fluid
under the passenger rear wheel and a nice rivulet of fluid flowing towards the
door...wrinkling up the garage floor coating (which was suppose to be
impervious to brake fliud).
Get i better get the thing up on the stands and check 'er out.
I replaced the lines last year. Suppose it's caliper rebuild time?
Bob Rentfro
'77 300D 148K
'01 VW Beetle TDI 61K
Litchfield Park, AZ
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So in my dad's barn is a 70something Datsun wagon that belonged to my
grandfather, and when he got sick/died my dad stuck it in the barn where
it has sat for 15 or 20 years. I was visiting the other day and dusted
it off and looked at it. It is quite good shape body-wise, the interior
smells really bad from all the inhabitants over the years. It was
running when parked, probably would not be hard to get running again.
But that was not really my thought...
It is a little front-wheel drive thing, nothing special, but kinda funky
in its way. Got me thinking that doing a rat rod job on it might be
kinda fun at some point, put some power in it, rear-wheel drive, weld in
some frame to hold it all, etc. An old rat rod ricer! Then I got
thinking that rather than the standard 350, an old Benz engine/tranny
would be kinda cool. Probably not a diesel unless I did one of those
Finnish mods to give it stupid power. And it would have to have a
boomer sound system and wiper/underneath neon and skulls (or maybe
Godzilla heads). And a couple of wings, gotta have wings.
The car has a 4 ft track and an 8ft wheelbase, more or less, a sheet of
plywood size! Not a lot of room to stick much under the hood, but those
older SLs really cram a lot in not much more space, if even. And 190s
and such are not a lot bigger. Hmmm... A 6 or an 8, maybe a 5?
Any thoughts? (I realize this could be viewed as really stupid, or
whacked, or weird, and I agree!) Donations?
(This is a better discussion than loud motorcycle mufflers)
--R
