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Hint; replace the 4 tubes that go from your door frame to the doors. The carry the vacuum tubes and the electrics to the door. They tend to leak and will fill your floor boards with water. They aren't really cheap but constant water in your foot wells can be a bit costly after a while.
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Awesome hint, thanks! I have water in the floorboards now, so I will take a look at this.
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Hint; Check out the door window slides. They tend to come apart and bind up the window. MB slides are really not cheap and I think after market ones will be just as good.
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Will check as well.
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Hint; When you replace the windshield seals ask around at window shops to see in they actually know how install theses windows. Get them to tell you how they do it. Most will BS you just to get the business but in reality haven't got a clue. It is a tricky process, takes 2 men, and you can crack a window before you know it.
If your window has an aluminum frame around it the frame MUST go on the window BEFORE the window goes in the car. Then you wrap a rope around the lip of the seal that goes inside the car, set the window in place, push it in as best you can, make sure the inside lip is inside the frame, and then pull the rope out. Sounds a bit tricky and it is. I have been involved with 3 replacements but only helped the window guy. I didn't try it myself.
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I am going to ask around and find out who the dealer reccomends. How much did it cost you in the end for labor to do this process?
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Hint; Ask your MB parts man if you can buy parts at a dealer's discount. Call yourself XYZ Restorers and see what he can do for you. I did this and saved a bundle.
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What if my MBparts man is the dealer?
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'85 300D, 'Lance',250k, ... winter beater (100k on franken-Frybrid 3 Valve Kit)
'82 300D, 'Tex', 228k body / 170k engine ... summer car
'83 300TD Cali Wagon 210k, wife's car
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