Removed the headlight assembly and inspected. As I suspected, the plastic frame around the headlight lens was cracked in several places, rendering its ability to hold the lens in place worthless.
I disassembled the headlight, removed the frame and lens, and have applied JB Weld to the affected areas. It’s clamped up and drying now, so by mid afternoon I should be able to reassemble and test. As long as the plastic frame holds up, and I see no reason why it wouldn’t, we should be good to go with proper headlight aiming on the driver’s side headlight. If it fails to hold up in the long term I’ll go the Curley route and hit up Car-Parts.com. I checked and there are several places in town that show up as having these. Not sure why the passenger side was all wacky. It’s intact and was easily adjusted. -D > On May 14, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Did my early morning grocery run in the E300D. > > No joy on the hard shifts. I’ll get under the car today and check the vacuum > modulator - hopefully that’s the issue. I’m going to check the line routing > if I can as well. The connections from the flying saucer to the modulator > are pretty straightforward, the only difficult part being the stuff under the > manifold that you can’t see or get to easily. > > Headlights were all whack-a-doo, that is, pointed in all different > directions. Did a quick garage door aiming and found that the driver’s side > headlight was all messed up inside. Linkages broken, stuff not anchored to > anything, etc. More confirmation that the car took a hit in the front, now > narrowed down to the left front. > > Gonna do a Curley and hit Car-Part.com and find a headlight assembly unless > someone here has one they want to part with. I’ll pull this one off today > and have a look inside, but on a cursory inspection from the access panel > there’s some serious stuff going on internally I probably can’t fix. Looks > like someone just put a new lens on and nothing more. So at least I have a > new lens… > > Car ran great other than the neck-snapping shifts. Speaking of which, looks > like the driver’s headrest doesn’t work or the switch is gunked up. > Something else to check today. > > Rear defogger did its job well and the cruise is now working, maybe from my > fuse replacement yesterday, so we’ve got some positive stuff for the day > already. > > I will say that this is a fun car to drive after putting around in a W126. > _______________________________________ > 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
