She's HOME Again

[NoSparkNeeded]

300TD back from the paintshop. No more rust. If you want to keep your
old Benz rust free, I would suggest that folks take ALL the trim off the
car and clean behind it every few years. The very fine deposit of dust/
dirt/silty stuff the consistency of flour,that collects and eventually fills the spaces behind the trim strips to ulimately cause moisture to be trapped around the mounting holes for long periods of time...causes rust to begin. I'm going to take the trim off every couple years and wash it out. I don't live in a dusty area, but I am about a mile from the ocean and the little TD
has to live outside. Mechanical problems are a lot easier to deal with than
bodywork, unless you have a paint booth.
I have to redrill a couple trim clip holes in the metal I welded in. They will be coated with POR-15 before the clips get riveted back.
This weekend all the trim, the window and interior stuff goes back on.
A/C compressor gets swapped out with a 4seasons rebuilt, as the old compressor seal must be leaking. I replaced all the orings and still have an
overnight drop from 29 to 6-7. Gotta be the comp seal.
THEN I have to get a swordtail and some 1Shot and try to replace the pinstripes I had to sand off for the rust repair. Perhaps I SHOULD have spent 9 grand on that one I saw.