Yep, another masterpiece. ATTABOY!
Wilt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Penoff via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: "Mercedes List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Cc: "Dan Penoff" <d...@penoff.com>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Let the Martha'ing Begin!
Photos have been added to the 1982 300D Cleanup folder. Here’s the one to
start with:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3dwo0hypq4ssn7/1982%20300D%20Cleanup%20Exterior%20Complete%20-%201.jpg?dl=0
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/v3dwo0hypq4ssn7/1982%20300D%20Cleanup%20Exterior%20Complete%20-%201.jpg?dl=0>
Dan
On Nov 25, 2016, at 4:07 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Got a decent start today despite sleeping in until 6:00.
Grille mounted, front and rear bumpers polished, cleaned and mounted
along with the cleaned end caps and brackets. Cleaned and detailed trunk
liners on both sides, cleaned trunk carpet and freshened. Removed spare
tire to find it was nearly brand new but has a date code of 2004 AND a
nice little sheet metal screw in the edge of the tread. It holds air for
now but I’ll be looking for a replacement from CL or one of the local
used tire resellers.
Touch up paint on the two small rust areas has dried and looks nice - it
really blended in better than I expected. Now that it’s dry I waxed it
and replaced the trim pieces that cover both areas. “Red Berries” were
already installed on Wednesday, so it’s was just a matter of popping the
trim on the right rear door and screwing the lower trunk lid trim to the
trunk lid.
No rust anywhere in the trunk but signs of leaking noticed near the
trailing edge of the trunk “ceiling” near the right side hinge. The rear
windows seal is in such bad shape I’m sure that water has gotten into the
trunk via the failed seal, however, it couldn’t have been much as there’s
no sign of it on the floor or in the spare tire well. I’m not keen about
the idea, but I am seriously considering replacement of the rear window
seal myself as I can’t find anyone around here that will touch it. I
have done windows like it a long time ago in my VW and W112 days, so it
won’t be the first time. Hmm.
Doing some final checking I found that I must have overfilled the
crankcase slightly when I changed oil last week, so I suctioned about 1/2
quart out. Whoops!
I replaced the levers on the vacuum switchover valves on the valve cover,
as one was worn away completely and the other was almost gone. Cleaned
the cam of all the old grease and applied fresh Mobil 1 synthetic grease
since I had it handy.
Took the “whiz nut” off the bolt in the power steering reservoir as it
didn’t belong. Fortunately the spring was the original one so it was
just a matter of putting everything back together the way it belonged.
Not sure why the whiz nut was there.
Noticed that the windows had a lot of water spots that I couldn’t clean
off. Hmm. Jay O’Brien from the old lists had given me this little
container of some polishing compound called “Nuttin’s Better” that was
used for polishing imperfections out of windshields. I must have used it
up or lost it in a move, so I started looking for alternatives. A-hah!
Rubbing compound!
So I applied rubbing compound to the glass and polished away. Looks
great and took all of the water spots off the glass, too. Nice.
All that’s left for the day is to replace the “Gottlieb Daimler”
signature sticker on the inside of the windshield. I’ll head out to do
that next, then probably drive over to our private park before sundown to
take some glamour shots. The stickers can be had from the Classic Center
for around $7.00/each - part number 115 584 08 38.
Tomorrow I may do motor mounts, as I’ve got a set of Lemförder mounts UPS
just delivered. I’ll clean carpets and interior tomorrow as well. I
need to do the power steering fluid and fuel filters along with a Diesel
Purge, too. Maybe that will be on Sunday.
Dan/Martha
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