Re: [diesel_mercedes]OT question regarding re-chroming parts winshield fabrication

 

Boyd,


I haven't tried it for this application, but 3M Super Weatherstrip Adhesive works for most everything.

Caution - 3M makes lots of products with similar names.  Make sure you get the Super that is yellow.  Another caution - once this dries, it is hard to get off and it is ugly, so clean up as you go.

It needs to be clamped into place to dry.  Make any improvised clamp you can think off - you will be able to remove the clamps the next day.

You could combine 3M super weatherstrip with John's stainless steel screws and leave the screws.

Good luck,
Bobby

On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Boyd Wright <bgthegreat@verizon.net> wrote:




I am also having bumper problems on my 82.  The rubber strip has been pulled away from the chrome bumper.  I can get the rubber back into position, but the tabs that keep it in place have been brittle and broken off.  Trying to find an adhesive that will work.  Has anyone found one?
 
Boyd
 
Boyd G. Wright  (410)592-5857

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Subject: RE: [diesel_mercedes]OT question regarding re-chroming parts winshield fabrication
 
What is your chrome bumper application? The custom after-market has almost anything available, already made up.
 
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Has anyone done this and is it expensive? I ask because have to fabricate an old style bumper either from steel (and chrome it) or from Stainless steel. Also, I will be fabricating a windshield, probably, similar to a t-bucket style; where does one get a windshiled fabricated, that is the glass cut for this? I'll fabricate a frame for this also.

Thanks for any of tips,
 





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Re: [diesel_mercedes]OT question regarding re-chroming parts winshield fabrication

 

I went to the bone yard and got some replacements. In the areas where the rubber attachments were broken off, I put a short stainless screw through the hole into the rubber from the inside and used GE Silicone sealant around the screw from the inside, essentially making a grommet. In retrospect, I think I also used some silicone between the rubber and the chrome bumper and cut away the excess after it dried. 

When I posted the question about re-chroming, I was wondering if anyone had experience with sending off steel parts to a chroming company, how much it costs etc.

--- On Mon, 5/20/13, Boyd Wright <bgthegreat@verizon.net> wrote:

From: Boyd Wright <bgthegreat@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes]OT question regarding re-chroming parts winshield fabrication
To: "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, May 20, 2013, 7:29 PM





I am also having bumper problems on my 82.  The rubber strip has been pulled away from the chrome bumper.  I can get the rubber back into position, but the tabs that keep it in place have been brittle and broken off.  Trying to find an adhesive that will work.  Has anyone found one?
 
Boyd
 
Boyd G. Wright  (410)592-5857

From: "corvallis@peoplepc.com" <corvallis@peoplepc.com>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 6:58 PM
Subject: RE: [diesel_mercedes]OT question regarding re-chroming parts winshield fabrication
 
What is your chrome bumper application? The custom after-market has almost anything available, already made up.
 
From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com [mailto: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of john public
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 3:47 PM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: R e: [diesel_mercedes]OT question regarding re-chroming parts winshield fabrication
 
 
Has anyone done this and is it expensive? I ask because have to fabricate an old style bumper either from steel (and chrome it) or from Stainless steel. Also, I will be fabricating a windshield, probably, similar to a t-bucket style; where does one get a windshiled fabricated, that is the glass cut for this? I'll fabricate a frame for this also.

Thanks for any of tips,
 


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Re: [diesel_mercedes] 1983 300SD axle inner boot install

 

Nate, I would suggest you go into the archives here, and Pelican, and Mercedes Source, and even others as they have some good pictures and videos to follow along. I chickened out and had mine done because I  am too old to muscle half shafts around anymore.

 
brian from laverne, ca
Mary (195K)  Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's
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Subject: [diesel_mercedes] 1983 300SD axle inner boot install

 
Hello all: I'm new at this procedure,I don't own a boot spreader.From what I've read the job supposed to go like this. Raise vehicle andsupport suspesion by where the shocks are.Unbolt rear end from mount to remove cover,using a jack under rear end.Remove cover,and pull the c clip for affected axle..Unbolt axle from hub,pull axle out.
To replace boot ? ?????
thats as far as I know. Tennessee Nate



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[diesel_mercedes] 1983 300SD axle inner boot install

 

Hello all: I'm new at this procedure,I don't own a boot spreader.From what I've read the job supposed to go like this. Raise vehicle andsupport suspesion by where the shocks are.Unbolt rear end from mount to remove cover,using a jack under rear end.Remove cover,and pull the c clip for affected axle..Unbolt axle from hub,pull axle out.
To replace boot ? ?????
thats as far as I know. Tennessee Nate

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