Yeah, I was reaching the point of saturation as far as how much money I wanted to put into this car before I either sold it off for profit or turned it over to the oldest boy for the proceeds of the sale of his S420.
I’m into it for around $2000 including the purchase price, and it’s near perfect. Given that it’s a W126 it will be far easier and cheaper to maintain than the S420. As I said previously, I’ll do the upper control arms and the other piddly stuff and it will be pretty much 100%. I’m comfortable with that. Once I get concurrence from SWMBO I’ll take down the ads. I got an interesting, even sort of sleazy spam on CL this morning. The person said they were interested in my “Mercedes” (note the failure to be specific) but they wanted to know if I had any sort of history report on it, like a CarFax. They linked to a vehicle history service and talked about how good it was when they used it before because it only cost $10 versus $30 or more for the “others”. I told them I had a CarFax for it and if they wanted a copy I would provide it. Never got a reply. -D > On Mar 28, 2017, at 1:31 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > sounds good > > --R > > > On 3/28/17 1:27 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: >> Took some time to look closely at the front suspension at lunch today. Good >> news! >> >> The lower ball joints are intact and tight. There was all sorts of cruft >> covering them, giving them the appearance of leaking grease. I cleaned them >> off and checked them closely and they’re intact with no cracks or damage. >> Good and tight, too. >> >> The upper control arm joints are the culprit for the occasional noise I’m >> hearing when turning. They’re shot, at least the boots are. The right side >> is almost completely torn off, the left side just cracked with some small >> tears, but it’s definitely open to the elements. I used my grease injector >> to push as much grease as I could into both as a stop gap measure, but I’ll >> be ordering the control arms today. >> >> This is great news, as it means I’ll probably keep the car and pass it along >> to the eldest boy. I’ll do the upper control arms and fix the left rear >> window and gas door lock and the car will be pretty much complete. I’ve >> read up on the CIS duty cycle adjustment some more and I’m planning on >> checking that out tonight to see how close it is to spec. >> >> Cool. >> >> -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 >> > > -- > --FT > Winston Churchill: > “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large > or petty, > never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. > Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the > enemy.” > > > _______________________________________ > 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
