Other than little tweaks and driving her, I am done with the major restoration work on my 280SE. I still need want to replace the seats with leather but that might wait until the winter.

Before and After pictures are located at the link below.
http://www.pokrefke.net/280SE/BeforeAfter.htm

Well done!

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Excellent! You must feel very good about your efforts.

I absolutely love W116 chassis cars.

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2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Kudos to your spirit and job well done!

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Wow, nice! I am looking forward to tackling my 1980 300SD W116.

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1967 W110 Universal Wagon, Euro, Turbo Diesel, Tail Fins, 4 Speed Manual Column Shift, A/C
1980 W116 300SD Turbo Diesel, DB479 Walnut Brown, Sunroof, Highly Optioned, 350,000+ Miles

I feel very at home when I see a garage with the W116 sitting next to an MG :-)

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Al

Beauty of a car, great work bringing her back!

Also great to see your Griffin radiator and aftermarket fan installed, looks clean and original to me.

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2005 MBZ C55 AMG "Lorelai" @ 165,000 miles
1991 MBZ 300E "Benzachino II" @ 165,000 miles
1990 MBZ 500SL "Shoshanna" @ 118,000 miles

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Fantastically well done. Was that a repaint in the original color? And what did you do to the air conditioning? Looks like a different compressor on there.

- Peter.

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Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

The original color was a (VERY faded) green metallic. We wanted to go with something a little more subtle than a metallic so we chose British Racing Green. It works very well with the interior color.

The original AC hoses were leaking so I replaced pretty much everything. I removed the York compressor and installed a Sanden 709 rotary compressor. The original condenser was in fair shape (a few bent fins) but I replaced it with an aluminum parallel flow condenser. I flushed the evaporator but did not replace it. I removed all the hoses and made up a set of barrier hoses. The electric cooling fan had bad bearings so I replaced it with a 2200 CFM unit. I finally got the low/high switch yesterday (the low cut-out prevents the compressor from turning on; the high switch turns on the cooling fan) and was able to fill it with R-12 last night.

Sounds like there is going to be a blizzard in the Windy City this summer!!

Wow - I love this car. My wife drove it to work Monday and I drove it yesterday and today. I have put about 200 miles on it so far this week. The AC works very well and the ride is very smooth. It has no problem keeping up with early morning tollway traffic (I was around 70mph this morning) and when it turns into a parking lot on the way home it is content to patiently idle, the AC blowing cold air and the temp gauge steady around 190 degrees.