Achtung - Das schweinhund baby benz thread

[Stretch]

Originally Posted by JB3

You have reached Pelican fame sir. The bird noticed you, he may look stoned up there in the corner, but hes a perceptive guy.

I just received an awesome Pelican update on this thread in my email

Do you think he really is stoned? I could do with some of that - I need to calm myself down before I start on the welding!

[0-60Motorsports]

Amazing project. You just inspired me to go find our first merc, a 200 W123 1984. My Father sold it without informing me and I really wanted to keep and do a full refresh on it.

Hope I find it so I can start a thread like yours LOL.

Best of Luck.

[Stretch]

Originally Posted by 0-60Motorsports

Amazing project. You just inspired me to go find our first merc, a 200 W123 1984. My Father sold it without informing me and I really wanted to keep and do a full refresh on it.

Hope I find it so I can start a thread like yours LOL.

Best of Luck.

Good luck with the hunt - I'm looking forward to the thread. A thread on the hunt might be good too.

When I get this one done I hope I get the chance to move on to my W123.

The W123 is much nicer to work on than the W201 I feel - there's a little more space around everything.

[Stretch]

It isn't every day you get recognition from the site sponsors - despite what many might think of as madness!



So thank you Pelican (although it would have been nice to gloss over the camshaft cock up!)

[0-60Motorsports]

Originally Posted by Stretch

Good luck with the hunt - I'm looking forward to the thread. A thread on the hunt might be good too.

When I get this one done I hope I get the chance to move on to my W123.

The W123 is much nicer to work on than the W201 I feel - there's a little more space around everything.

Yeah true. I just want to find my old W123. Told my father to see if he still has the guys number so I can track it down.

[190E 2.3 rur rur rur]

Stretch, that car has so many neat things about it. it encourages me to

recussitate the RUR RUR 190E. getting to the starter finally, so it can rur rur rur
instead of RUR RUR!

i think the trans will survive and clutch was all there was wrong. (hydraulic restriction)
but the flywheel ring gear, strange, its too blue and too big. getting one soon.

wanted to thank you for all the pics and advice

[Stretch]

Originally Posted by 190E 2.3 rur rur rur

...
recussitate the RUR RUR 190E. getting to the starter finally, so it can rur rur rur
instead of RUR RUR!

...

Do it!

[suginami]

Originally Posted by Stretch

Do it!

Yes, do it, so we can read about the journey here on the forum!

[Stretch]

I've painted the hard fuel lines and the brake line for the rear wheels



I thought I'd already painted the clamps but found I hadn't so that delayed the process of refitting these lines that run the length of the under body. Tomorrow is the day...



Rubber parts got a good clean today - that aerospace303 stuff is really good. Some people say they've only ever bought one spray bottle of the stuff - that it lasts forever - I've nearly finished mine already!



The underside of this W201 is weird. Most of the underside is coated in the usual Mercedes rubberised junk that I hate so much, but for some reason the transmission tunnel has been left with just paint. A few rust bubbles have formed =>



They have now been sanded away / wire brushed away and I decided to coat this area with old fashioned bitumastic under body treatment.

I don't really like the bitumastic stuff all that much but it is easier to apply than the whole POR-15 option which would have meant degreasing a bit more intensively. This is hard to do on a car on axle stands so I've gone for the easier option.

[Stretch]

...position of hard lines under the car





They'll go back on looking a bit cleaner

EDIT - found picture of the front before I took it all to bits



In case you are wondering why there's a vent line running from the petrol tank all the way to the front of the car, there's a charcoal filter stuffed under the front wing (LHS) that connects to the air intake manifold so that nasty gasses get burnt away.

[Stretch]

I'm just replacing the nuts on the bolts for the flex discs

I've got two OK looking front flex discs and one OK back one - no new parts this time re-re-re-cycle



But those buggers are going back on with copper ease



Removal of the old vibration damper fitted to propshafts with manual gearboxes is simple - tap with hammer and punch



Old one is still OK looking



Part number 201 411 30 47

The propshafts I have however are a bit problematic =>



The four speed front section isn't going to be used - it is too long with a five speed gearbox fitted.

The five speed front end that I bought looks sort of OK but both the rear sections of both propshafts have slightly notchy universal joints

I think I might be fitting the second hand section that came with the 5 speed propshaft I bought for the conversion just to see if everything else is working - such as the 5 speed gearbox and differential after the rebuild work I've done.

I guess I'll have to take it off soon to fix the UJ notchiness - I'll practice on the old four speed section that came off the car though.

[Stretch]

I had a bit of a surprise today - my shifter mechanism is different from the ones mentioned in the W124 and W201 Haynes manuals

Here's what it looks like "up top"



Reverse is back and to the left and the 5th gear is top and to the right

I was expecting to see something like this when looking at the linkages underneath



But instead I got this



(Found in WIS chapter 27 information but no mention of which bit attaches to which)

After a bit of arsing about I worked out the following relationships



Connections on gear box are



I think the rods are the same



Part number for the big bushings at the gearbox connections = 000 992 11 10

Part number for the little bushings in the eye ends of the shifter rods = 011 011 59 92

[DieselPaul]

Early shifters have Reverse down and to the far right. Later shifters have reverse down and to the left. Also the early shifters push down to get into reverse, the later shifters pull up to get into reverse.

Reverse up and to the left would only be the 16V dogleg box.

Did the trans and shifter come from the same car?

[Stretch]

Originally Posted by DieselPaul

Early shifters have Reverse down and to the far right. Later shifters have reverse down and to the left. Also the early shifters push down to get into reverse, the later shifters pull up to get into reverse.

Reverse up and to the left would only be the 16V dogleg box.

Did the trans and shifter come from the same car?

Oh no signor eeetsa beeeetsa

(everything was bought separately)

Thanks for clearing up the shifter options

[DieselPaul]

1987 200TD


1990 190E 2.0