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Mölyapina · #61 10-03-2013, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by JB3

Do you have the palamino driver seat arm rest and head rests still? Interested in a straight trade? Ill pm you when I get to undressing the seats

If he doesn't go for it, I might be interested in your headrest skins...

You're putting me to shame for junking my '84's shell! Although I didn't have a welder at the decision point...

cooljjay · #62 10-03-2013, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by funola

Thanks!

No problem!

When I cleaned behind the bottom of my fenders, I found at least a pound of gunk.....caused a rot hole the size of a quarter...

Also if you have a few spare hours, its wise to pull the door cards and clean the bottom of the doors out to prevent them from rotting....also a good time to lube the window tracks.....

funola · #63 10-04-2013, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by JB3

great, thanks!

so as we were discussing on the rust repair on the vehicle not getting up past midpoint on the drivers side, I started to get into the pedal mount, and discovered some pretty bad rust up in that corner behind the tire. I couldn't let it go, I just kept picking and picking, and now ive uncovered a kinda large issue.

Forum member Stretch is having an impact on me, before ive even had a chance to register this vehicle, ive taken it to bits!

After uncovering it, Ive gotta fix it before I take for state inspection because it will obviously fail. Preview of the damage-

so initially I thought this was the majority of the problem-

Actual damage is quite a bit more extensive though. That above throttle pedal is actually screwed into vinyl, not any metal. looks seamless underneath. The floor area has 5 holes in it. (circled 4 here, but found another big one between the center one and the pedal)

Then because I couldn't leave well enough alone, I went out to this bit, which as you recall looked like this-

And I opened that pandora's box-

and that pandoras box pulled open the lid of another pandoras box-

^^^ this hole is even larger too, I pulled off a lot more undercoating after this pic and found the extent of it.

so, rust repair on this corner of the car will proceed earlier than I originally intended. I intend to fix this before the fiance drives it around.

heres an interesting pic- the gray area is the vinyl undercoating. its so think that its as stiff as the metal right in this area, yet there is no floor pan left. This unique to mercedes problem is pretty irritating, this will take considerable work to expose for welding-

Is this rust worse than the 83 you bought from me? What's the cause of this kind of rust? Is it water getting inside the car or water from outside? I am testing a wet floor alarm circuit which is very promising (it is a modification to the low coolant alarm circuit that I've been testing). It will let you know when the floors get wet and will prevent the car from rusting inside out if you find and fix the source of the leak (if it is not already rusted out). Better late than never?

vstech · #64 10-04-2013, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by funola

Good to know. May i ask how they broke?

the blade drive mechanisim shears if you do ANY twisting or side cutting... if you are not making a simple plunge cut, or straight cut, the thing just snaps!

JB3 · #65 10-05-2013, 01:34 PM

klokkerholm panel shipment has arrived!

includes a front floor pan, driver side full rocker, and some front trim bits. Now the fun begins!

the floor pan piece and rocker are more complete than I expected, the floor pan has the inner rocker panel steel as part of it

Mölyapina · #66 10-05-2013, 01:43 PM

How much was the shipping on those puppies? It doesn't look cheap, but what do I know...

JB3 · #67 10-05-2013, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Jooseppi Luna

How much was the shipping on those puppies? It doesn't look cheap, but what do I know...

The stuff was drop shipped from somewhere in NJ, so total cost was under 150 bucks for 5 patch panels purchased and shipped. These panels are ridiculously cheap

JB3 · #68 10-05-2013, 04:36 PM

rocker and firewall panels in- doesn't look as smooth as stock, but its solid. Debating if I want to put that end of rocker hole in the panel. Also, the rocker piece I used has a provision for the jack hole, but I removed that entire bit. Ill be cutting that provision out and plating it with a bit from the larger piece later

The fender was also damaged, so I will have to repair that before I can put on POR and rubbercoating

tomorrow its time to move inside and fix the Floor time!

cooljjay · #69 10-05-2013, 04:42 PM

Put on your list, new sway bar bushings......I see a gap between the bar and bushing

JB3 · #70 10-08-2013, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by cooljjay

Put on your list, new sway bar bushings......I see a gap between the bar and bushing

noted!

Question for the forum-

the tab that the throttle pedal pivots from on a 123, is that a 90 degree straight up or a 45 degree bent towards the firewall piece of steel? Can someone peek at their pedal?

I can't tell what angle from what was left in the bottom of the pedal

EDIT-

here is a pic of this piece im talking about-

pwogaman · #71 10-08-2013, 05:09 PM

Here is a W126 for reference.

JB3 · #72 10-08-2013, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by pwogaman

Here is a W126 for reference.

great! 90 degrees looks like it, thanks!

JB3 · #73 10-08-2013, 06:02 PM

so have some of the floor taken care of. Here is where excess undercoating really started to get old. There was a lot of it.

here was the basic situation, hole under the pedal, hole above the frame rail, and hole above the fuel/brake lines-

from underneath-

cut it all out, and the plan was a total of 4 patches cut out of my new floor pan. The division in the patches was because both big holes crossed over closed frame sections.

vinyl situation was ridiculous under the pedal area-

the longest part of this set of patches was getting the vinyl off the underside of the car

New steel installed-

this hole ill deal with later, you can see the division between the stock floor and where the other steel repairs ended coming forward-

next order of business is close up the outer floor, and put in the inner rocker, then start painting and seam sealing

JB3 · #74 10-09-2013, 06:07 PM

nearing the end of this rust situation, have the floor corner in and most of the inner rocker.

ive left myself quite a rust project later from the weld line towards the rear, but hopefully I can pass inspection with that hole not dealt with yet. I might jam gaffers tape in there for now.

here was the outer corner, and patch shape, consisting of part cut from the klokker floor pan-

after I paint on the inside of the rocker, then one more small piece will close up the inner support-

grinding on the outside, then I can get to refitting the fender

JB3 · #75 10-10-2013, 01:41 PM

so ive come to a decision on the fender. It looks ok and the paint looks decent, but its pretty rotten around the mounting area. This is looking at it from the back side where the fender would bolt into the rocker-

Unfortunately most of that is rust-

there is also considerable rot in the usual area on the corner-

The plan is im bolting it back on for the winter as is, and with no inner shield for now. It looks fine even rotted like it is, and I have another fender if I can't save this one worst case. Next year ill look into it.

finally starting to finish up on the outside- bottom area-

wheeled, cleaned, and PORed

next seam sealing, then undercoating, then I can put the fender back on and move inside to finish up