Finally, good news about the 300D

[KAdams4458]

While I was chasing electrical gremlins, installing steering parts, and resoldering a fuel sender, my wife was busy media blasting the Bundt wheels I picked up from a local guy with a cache of old MB parts. Once she was finished, I touched up a few scratches in them with some epoxy and shot them with Duplicolor silver wheel paint and clear coat. Whoo!

The ol' girl ought to look a lot better with the fresh wheels and tires, and it gave me a chance to use a dial indicator to ensure the rims were straight and true.

I know this may technically be wheel and tire forum material, but I wanted to give you fine diesel folks something besides doom and gloom oriented questions for a change.

All four shots are of one wheel, which happens to be date coded 8-73. The tire was so rotten that it came off in pieces. I was concerned that this one might be too far gone to be saved when I saw the amount of corrosion that had been hidden by the tire. This one also had the most severe curb rash out of the bunch, and required at least four hours of intensive prep work prior to spraying the paint. It was a basketcase, for sure.

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I'll give bonus points for anyone who can identify a wheel dimension based on the blue stripes around the inside of the rim!