Anytime!

How does it look with the wheels sans hubcaps? Those wheels I sent are better suited to running naked than the ones with all the holes in them.

Its militant looking, ill take a pic for you soon, they are nicely coated with salt, getting seasoned

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Be sure to throw on some pepper for balance. It's never good to have unbalanced wheels.

But seriously, since you just did some major rust repair on the car, how are you planning on protecting it from the effects of winter roads? Are you oilcoating it? Rinsing it once a week? Inquiring minds want to know .

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

2 things-

1. Washing salt off as much as possible temperature permitting (frozen locks and door seals ripping = bad). Salt is preferable to tearing your driver door seal off or breaking your key, been there done that for both

2. Being comfortable with the fact that winter use, and really any use of the car will attack and destroy paint and body work forever, and that body repair will forever be an ongoing maintenance factor.
Far too many people see rust as a death knell for a car and freak out if the car is showing rust problems; it helps if you consider rust in the same light as tires. Periodically, rust repair will need to happen, just like replacing tires. If you stay on top of it from minute one with that mentality, you can keep the car going for a long time. It took 20 years for the car to develop the rust it now has, if you knock it flat and keep it clean, it will take another 20 years for the car to develop rust just as bad.

This car has rotten doors, and a rotten passenger floor. Thats next years project for me. After thats done, it will go for a long time without new rust repair, im sure there will be plenty of touch ups, but no major work for a while. Locally we see winter weather, but nothing like I used to deal with living in upstate NY, so it shouldn't kill the car as fast.

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here you are, looks pretty good IMO-

Steel wheel with winter tire-



mounted in its element-

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Lookin good. Im almost starting to like the way the car looks without the rubber bumper ends too

So this morning, needed to be somewhere 8am, jumped in, fired the car up, and backed out, ripping the block heater cord off.

Especially ironic as I've been nagging the wife endlessly about not doing that with her car, and of course I'm the one to do it.

I want to rig something up so that if the same thing might happen, its a bit more robust and the cord just pulls out of the plug, not the wires break. Next project to begin

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Came too close, so now what I do since she is in the garage, is leave the hood fully up. Another way be to put a sticky note on the windshield. Eventually you might learn to have a start up procedure.

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1985 Mercedes-Benz 280TE - Waiting for heart surgery.

1985 Mercedes-Benz 300TDT - Rear ended 23 September 2016 and now looking for a new home.

1979 Mercedes-Benz 300TD - Parted out.

1964 Volkswgen Beetle - Vater's since September 1968 and undergoing a restoration.

1971 Volkswagen Sunroof Squareback with F.I. - in need of full restoration.

1971 Volkswagen Squareback automatic with F.I. - Vacationing with her caretaker until he is in better health.

couple developments. All was welll until the driver front spring decided it would look better if it lost a few pounds during the night-

I came out to get a nice breakfast with the wife, and the car looked like this-




Installed new front springs, and now I have a different issue.




rear springs on order, hopefully that will help level the car out. The ride has greatly improved though.

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You didn't take the moving stickers off the wheels

Where did you end up getting new springs from?

I see this thread you compared the height of the spring.
Front COIL Spring Snapped 1983 240D


Not seeing the final stance yet and just looking at your spring comparison, I imagined you were going to end up looking like that because the height is so different. Mercedes typically have 2 different heights on their springs, there is a possibility that you received the taller of the two.

Also, did you compare the wire diameter between the new and old springs? Are they the same thickness?

Hopefully, new rear springs will fix that issue. If not, I notice you have a 3 burl/nub spring pad in there.



Maybe a 1 burl spring pad will bring it down further.


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I absolutely burst out laughing when I scrolled down to this .

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."