I had heard she was talented at stripping wallets, had no idea she could strip paint off of valve covers.... That is "world class"... what next, stripping chrome off trailer hitch balls?
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 9:34 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I was close, I thought her name is Bambi > > Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> March 5, 2017 at 10:13 AM >> Brandi. From the gentlemen's club over by the airport. >> >> --FT >> >> >> >> >> MG via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> March 5, 2017 at 9:29 AM >> Dan do you know what the distance is between the arms of the sway bar? >> Also what is the name of the stripper and where did you get it? >> >> Manfred >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://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 >> >> Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> March 4, 2017 at 7:09 PM >> Oy. What a day…. >> >> So I set out to do the upper timing cover seal, distributor cap cover, >> wire cover and strip/paint the valve cover, which was peeling really bad. >> >> Before I started in on the 300SEL, I spent an hour putting the new 10mm >> rear sway bar on the 350SDL. OMG. The car drives like it’s nailed down. >> Absolutely no body roll in turns. I’m looking forward to driving to work >> on Monday, as there are some pretty aggressive turns and such that are a >> part of my commute. That will really show its performance. >> >> So I get the 300SEL in the garage and get started. I’m just about to >> remove the timing cover and I get a call from one of my neighbors who is a >> quasi-HOA board member. Issues with the padlock on the inner gate in our >> private park. Sigh. So I have to deal with that, which took a good hour to >> resolve. So back to the car… >> >> Get the top timing cover off, cleaned up, old cam seal out and ready to >> go. Everything set up with MB (Hylomar) sealant and away I go. New cam seal >> tapped in place, top timing cover is now sealed. >> >> Now for the valve cover. >> >> Hit it with some aircraft stripper I had and went in the house to get a >> cold beverage and check mail. Come out 15 minutes later and the paint on >> the valve cover has pretty well peeled off completely. With some scraping >> and brushing I get it all off. The cover itself is not in good shape as far >> as the surfaces. It’s really rough for some reason. Anyway, I hit it with >> degreaser and let it sit. Come back in a few, rinse it off and pop it in >> the outdoor over on low to dry out. >> >> Back to the garage to do some other things. >> >> Pull the air cleaner housing and find that a couple of the mounts are >> broken. No surprise there. One of the plastic “feet†on the air cleaner >> housing has a mount seized up on it and the foot has some serious cracks, >> probably due to some gorilla trying to remove it. I try to break the nut >> loose but only end up breaking the foot completely off. Grr. After a >> liberal application of Kroil and a pair of channellocks am I able to get >> the remains of the mount off. >> >> I got to put the distributor cap back on with the new cover, only to find >> the little carbon pin in the center that goes to the rotor is gone. ??? A >> trip to Ace and the “majik boxes†saves the day - again! Found a small >> square motor brush for $4.40 that I was able to file into a cylindrical >> shape to fit the hole where the pin was missing. The spring was still >> there, so I’m confident it will work long enough to move the car around >> the driveway. Ordered a new Bosch cap and rotor from Amazon. >> >> One thing that’s really nice about the new cover that goes over the >> distributor cap is that it has a diagram of how to route the spark plug >> wires. Cool! I’ve never seen this on an M103 before. The plastic covers >> for the wire gutter on the valve cover were kaput as they always are. Added >> those part numbers to my Monday morning Mercedes order. Amazingly, those >> two parts are only about $12.00 total. >> >> Got the plug wire all back on the distributor cap. >> >> Changed spark plugs with Bosch W9DC plugs from the dealer. Old plugs were >> awful. They were pretty clean, but the gaps on them were huge simply due to >> wear. Easily double the spec. >> >> Had the requisite vacuum lines snap off during various operations. I >> normally keep a couple of meters of the stuff around, but I forgot to >> restock. Have to add that to the dealer order, too. >> >> Killing time waiting for the JB Weld to set up on the air cleaner housing >> I hosed the leaking PS cooler hoses and clamps in anticipation of changing >> them tomorrow. That’s going to be pretty nasty. >> >> Called it a night and figured I would let he air cleaner housing repairs >> set up over night. I’ve got new breather and snorkel hoses that will get >> installed when the air cleaner housing gets refitted. Old ones were cracked >> and hard as a rock. >> >> -D >> _______________________________________ >> http://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 >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://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 > > _______________________________________ http://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
