Well, it's been about two months now that I've been tackling the severely rusted out trunk floor on my 1973 220D. I'm only able to devote 2-3 hours per week so it will be a long haul. Basically the floor has been rusted through since I bought the car in 1997 and I've been putting it off for other more cosmetic rust repairs, but I'm tired of having to deal with diesel (be it ) biodiesel fumes coming in thought the trunk. Also all the contents in the trunk getting a nice even coating of soot. I'm tired of making excuses to friends that ride in my car that the trunk is too dirty for their coat or bag. So, I went ahead and ordered a factory original trunk floor from K&K manufacturing. This has turned out to be a massive undertaking, having to drill out or grind out hundreds of spot welds. Was this car overbuilt or what! Anyway, I've removed about a third or so of the trunk floor. Can see the fuel tank and exhaust underneath- looks weird. The smaller floor area to the left is actually a separate piece that does not seem to be available, at least, not at any reasonable cost. I will fabricate this, beading and all. Left lower portion of quarter panel also rusted through. Ordered a $40 patch panel from K&K manufacturing. This part will be easier but I unfortunately have to fabricate the backing to which this is spot welded to as that also rusted away. I will send pictures of my progress once they become available. Dimitri 1973 220D, 800K
--------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 19 21:55:15 2006 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.206]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FAwWM-0001Dm-0r for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:55:12 +0000 Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id b2so497466nfe for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:55:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=HltBhXgN05fGQSz1EJnf8D4G56r7jaELpYjC0pXAbqQ6M3i2U0Qd+7undJHtn3kyWYv6Wqa/SdMtGEUm1GymixmI4GyCjC+EuSAAJBC7ko0VGgbuwYT/VZWc44trktOT3Zb7Z1f5ItrJ+vasv875IgZYa9T/9BpxOuefirAqAUo= Received: by 10.49.61.3 with SMTP id o3mr687971nfk; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:55:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.49.9.6 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:55:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:55:07 -0500 From: "Sunil Hari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.6 Subject: Re: [MBZ] air filter on 92 300D X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:55:16 -0000 When I changed the oil, i was waiting for it to drain and i poked around some more - i found the "hidden" latches and changed the filter. Thanks fo= r your help. These 124s are better to drive, but take a little more work to do maintenance jobs. On my 123, air and fuel filters were much more accessible. Even the differential oil fill hole has the exhaust in the way= . On 2/19/06, Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am I missing something? I undid all the latches, and the top of the > > box > > just won't come off. What am I not disconnecting that I should be? > > If it's like a 201, there's another row of latches on the bottom, > invisible to the normal eye. > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.striplin.net > For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ > For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net > -- Sunil Hari 1992 300D 2.5T - 286Kmi. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 513-205-7474