Sent you an email off list, Thanks again! ------------- Max Charleston SC
On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 10:42 PM clay monroe via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > A most arduous adventure, sort of. > > I went to the close yard and that was just wrong, as that car was the > sedan, but listed as CE, so had to head 60 miles south to find the only > Benz in the other yard. That was the CE we wanted. An animal had attacked > it first, but was deterred by the regulators. He did get the driver side > motor though. > > This is the point were we learn the damn things are riveted in. Passenger > side motor came out ok. Back motors are interesting. The rear motors are > wire drive. Be careful with the plastic bits on yours. A person needs to > remove the rear seats, all seats, to gain access to all the fiddly bits you > will be removing. It is all 8 and 10mm but for the 17mm holding the seat > belt. The white plastic rectangle thing is where the ends of the wires > hook in after feeding through a cam on the bottom and top. > > I hit the yard this morning with the rivet be gone tool and liberated the > front regulator. These are added to the motors from yesterday. I > collected a bunch of “spare” parts from the removal. Not sure you would > need them, but a person never can be too sure. The back seat plastic bits > did not survive well. > > The missing driver motor was getting me torqued. I assumed there may be > another marque that might use the same hardware. That turned out to be > sort of correct. BROSE motors are in lots of cars. I was able to scrounge > an appropriate motor out of a 710 BMW. BMW uses a plastic head instead of > the metal one used in the Benz. Same bolt pattern and body. I think the > tooth count is the same. > > When I got back home, I ran all motors to make sure they test well. All > four are good. You can clean them up as needed. Probably best to install > the motors once you get the regulators in. I had to pull the glass to get > the regulators out. Might need the same to get them in. > > I am getting this all packed up Friday morning. It will be able to ship > Monday by UPS Ground. Night be close to 20 pounds. Motors are heavy. > Regulators are longish. PnP charges core for everything, which is just > criminal to me. I am about $250 in on the hardware. Once I get it on the > road, I will have a total for you. > > Now, your task will be to provide a shipping address. > > > clay monroe > redgh...@comcast.net > > > > > _______________________________________ > 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
