Did the final round for the day. Cleaned front carpets and mats. They cleaned up quite well.
Got the windshield washer reservoir installed with a new grommet on the pump. Sadly, they dumped the washer fluid heater and redirected the coolant flow, but at least someone had the foresight to get a new cap for the reservoir rather than keep the original which would have had the holes for the heater pipes in it. Had to aim a couple of the windshield washer jets. Dental picks are nice for this, as I didn’t have one of those “T” pins that also work well for the job. Replaced all of the fuses with copper fuses. Popped the relays in the back of the fuse box and cleaned pins with some DeOxIt. Replaced the 30 amp fuse on what I suspect is the auxiliary fan fuse (square, green, with a blade fuse as part of the relay?) Still shifts hard, but not as bad as when the vacuum line was disconnected. I’ll need to get back under the car and check the modulator, as it is probably leaking. It’s the original with the rubber cap, so I suspect it probably is. Also noticed the shift linkage bushings are gone. I mean GONE. I wonder if I should bite the bullet and buy one of the special pliers? Not looking forward to that job, as the tunnel is really, really tight on this car. All in all a pretty good day, despite the auxiliary fan debacle. I’m bummed that i couldn’t resurrect them, but they were pretty much toast long before I got to them from the looks of things. Not a lot to do tomorrow as I’m at the point of needing parts. I’ll test the vacuum modulator on the transmission an that will probably be the extent of the work I do. Gotta start getting the 300D prepared for delivery, as the buyer comes a week from Monday to drive it back to Grand Rapids…. -D > On May 13, 2017, at 4:24 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Got under the car. > > Looks pretty good, no surprises. There are two pieces of flex used to > “delete” the catalyst and one of them is leaking. I’m thinking I’ll take the > car to my local custom exhaust guy and just ask him if he can fix the leak > and hope he doesn’t want to get all official on me and insist that he has to > install a new catalyst. If he does I’ll just have to dig into it a little > more to get the leak sealed up. > > Rubber and joints are all fairly new and in good shape. Definitely needs new > brake hoses, but that’s no surprise. Other than the missing sound deadening > panel underneath (anyone got one they want to part with?) below decks > actually looks pretty good. > > Transmission vacuum box was disconnected, as in the line looks like it just > came loose. Reconnected it and will test drive in a bit. > > Was hoping to bleed brakes while I had the car in the air but I’m running out > of steam. I’m going to clean up, maybe hit the mats with some carpet > cleaner, and call it a day. > > -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
