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25 lbs and 39 inches or shorter in longest dimension = $65 for station to station. ------------- Max Charleston SC On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 10:13 AM Meade Dillon <dillonm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Once you get it all boxed, and have a good idea of the weight, try the > Grey Hound freight on-line shipping for a price, I'll bet it is much lower > than UPS. > ------------- > 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
