today. After many weeks of rain. And more rain is on the way, enough to make the land slide from hills and stuff. Maybe some day in the far future the sun might return.
With the sun out, I got stupid. First I took apart the spare turbo I picked up at PnP. Not all the way down, just a little apart. Then I cleaned it of much rust and carbon. Which lead to putting it in the oven at 300f for two hours to dry it all out. The turbine spins very well. I do not know what this means. The Gen I headlights were a mess. Passenger side was missing a door and both sides had cracked fog lights. Once I figured out how to remove the lower trim I removed the old lamps and installed a set of Gen II headlights. I had to do this twice, because I forgot to remove the lower angle mounts from the originals. Then I took the Gen I set apart. I intend to clean the buckets and polish the trim. Maybe I sell it on FleaBay. No lamps, just the buckets. Buyer has to provide his own doors. The exhaust donuts out back were shot. I got a set of fresh rubber rings. One ring went on fine. The other (outer) decided to fail instead of going on. I used a tire iron to try to hook it on the hook, but it decided to split. So, I pulled a length of rebar wire to make a temporary metal ring until I can get FLAPS to replace the busted one. After washing my hands, I got in the car and went to work getting the not working Pioneer radio out of the dash. I had to fake a set of radio keys. The cluster pull tool was able to pull the radio out. That was good. Even better was that the wires were labeled, so when I find an old Becker of that era (early 80’s) I can make it work. _______________________________________ 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
