Saturday morning Tom and headed out to the local P-A-P yard with special tools in hand and my regular 5 gallon bucket o' tools to find some un bent tie rods (dang tow truck !) for the Euro Station Wagon I'm building for my sweet , I quickly found a W-123 with no front wheels and tried the <magic> Chinese tool ~ it popped the tie rods loose in a minute or less , NO DAMAGE to the rubber dust boots ! .
Tom wandered 'round looking for elusive W-126 parts and came back to report some old gasser wagon was nearby , I went to have a look and discovered a gray market 280TE (M-110 engine) that still had the front European bumper on it so I grabbed that , prolly will install it to my '84 Diesel Coupe .
I also found , in a W-124 , a _Japanese_ made Mercedes logoed AM/FM/Cassette radio that has the _same_ electrical plugs as our beloved W-116 ,W-123 & W-126's do , I waffled about buying it , Tom (the Electronical Genious) read the manufacturer's labels and asked me to look closely at it ~ it turns out to have THREE bands , one is a weather band wow ! he bought it for $17.00 , I prolly should have bought it for my truck but now I know there's yet another good DIN sized radio to look out for .
Oddly , the front of the radio doesn't mention the weather band . it has electronic tuning and so should be a good one .
It's been warming up a bit here , 44° last night but it was 80 + ° in the yard yesterday , I sweated out too much and nearly passed out in the yard .
-Nate
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