Not much of a car work day. Auction needed attending. I had looked at the catalog and there seemed to be about a dozen things I might not be able to live without. So I went. Turned out I could live without a bunch of it, and there was not a real killer bargain going to be had on the stuff there. I was not impressed, so I lugged the Makita Demo Hammer of Death machine I bid on back home and figured I could use that to get the seat out.
Actually I busted that mystery around midnight and was waiting until sunlight and dry weather to go after the offending screws. They are massive phillips head screws that need a #4 bit to spin up, and impact drive to convince they need to leave the premises. I have some impact things, so I tried using what tools I had. Yeah, lame-o #2 or #3 bits are not going to do a darn thing. Well, they will strip the head, so spent three hours hunting down which store in Seattle would be most likely to have said #4 bit. Not FLAPS, or the local hardware shoppe. Dumb idea to think that Homo despot or Lowe-ching will carry an impact bit in #4, so go to Nappy and ... have you noticed that even they have succumbed to stocking chinese crap? But not a #4 phillips head. Hipster at the counter said I could see if sears had one. Turns out they did. In a $25 hand impact set. I need the thing, I have wasted at least that much fuel zipping around, and I needed to get the banana tree I picked up at the despot home and potted. And it took three minutes once I had lubed the rails and slid the seat forward to locate the offending screws and smack the bejeezus out of them so that I could lift the seat out and hand truck it into the garage. I will be giving it a good cleaning up and POR to delay the incipient rust, while I tickle the rear foot well with my wire wheel and splash POR to deal with the aftermath. May have to make more patches so that any holes become not hole. That will have to be all on my schedule until Saturday afternoon. Griots Garage is hosting a how to use their products so that your car is pretty and they get some more converts to donate to the cause. I am looking forward the the cocoa and donuts. Might win a door prize. clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She is green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Cleo - Used by the Queen of Denial POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to 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
