As you can see from the pics, I am well on my way with all of this. When trying to remove the steering wheel, I used a breaker bar and a cheater pipe and the 10mm hex key just snapped! Do you think it would be safe to use an impact wrench to loosen ?

Also a question about the pods in the pics...they have stickers on them that say "K W PARTS". I am assuming that these are replacement parts, but I would like to know to be sure. Anyone know ?

My nasty old dash is pictured below.

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1992 400E current
1988 300E sold
1973 280C totalled
1973 280SEL never got it running
1971 250C my first love but rusted out