RE: [diesel_mercedes] Baby , I'ts _COLD_ Outside !

 

A job well done is its own reward. 

28 degrees and falling in the central valley (Willamette) in Oregon.  Bill

 

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Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Baby , I'ts _COLD_ Outside ! [3 Attachments]

 

 

 

 

So naturally I'm outside sitting on a milk crate in my shirt sleeves using liquid de greaser and water from the garden hose to clean the accumulated old grease and desert sand off the three good working door checks I found in Las  Vegas last week with Tom......

 

After they were all cleaned up and dried off (and my fingers an interesting shade of blue)  , I used white aerosol lithium grease to lube one up then I took the driver's side door on my grey market 1984 300TD apart and installed it , replaced the broken inside door release pull and discovered the source of the ' thunk ' sound the driver's side window recently began making ~ the 10 MM A.T.F. bolt that holds the electric window lift to the window proper , was very loose and about to fall out .

 

I snugged up all the various fasteners , most were loose and I discovered the D.P.O. had ignored this same issue until the lift failed and the door skin was cracked in two places and torn in another where a 10 MM A.T.F. bolt is supposed to hold the window lift .

 

Pic. # 1 shows my set up for cleaning before I began .

 

Pic. # @ shows the stress cracks in the inner door skin from the DPO foolishly ignoring the bad noises and trying to force the window closed . notice these cracks developed nowhere near any fasteners , they occurred from the entire inner door skin flexing !  .

 

Pic. # 2 shows the wrong hardware and funky homemade gusset used to over come the larger hole where a 6 MM stud was ripped right through ~ it's ugly but it was the _only_ fastener in the entire door that wasn't loose so I decided to leave it as is .

 

The door card was a little bit dirty and this is SWMBO's car so I left it off for the moment , I'll scrub it Hospital Clean before making up  new plastic dust/moisture shield (also gone missing , GRrrrr) and re assembling everything .

 

I also have to do the passenger side front door and look inside the rear passenger side door as it'd window is making a faint ' click ' now and then .

 

HAPPY NEW YEARS to all ! .

 

-Nate

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So naturally I'm outside sitting on a milk crate in my shirt sleeves using liquid de greaser and water from the garden hose to clean the accumulated old grease and desert sand off the three good working door checks I found in Las  Vegas last week with Tom......

After they were all cleaned up and dried off (and my fingers an interesting shade of blue)  , I used white aerosol lithium grease to lube one up then I took the driver's side door on my grey market 1984 300TD apart and installed it , replaced the broken inside door release pull and discovered the source of the ' thunk ' sound the driver's side window recently began making ~ the 10 MM A.T.F. bolt that holds the electric window lift to the window proper , was very loose and about to fall out .

I snugged up all the various fasteners , most were loose and I discovered the D.P.O. had ignored this same issue until the lift failed and the door skin was cracked in two places and torn in another where a 10 MM A.T.F. bolt is supposed to hold the window lift .

Pic. # 1 shows my set up for cleaning before I began .

Pic. # @ shows the stress cracks in the inner door skin from the DPO foolishly ignoring the bad noises and trying to force the window closed . notice these cracks developed nowhere near any fasteners , they occurred from the entire inner door skin flexing !  .

Pic. # 2 shows the wrong hardware and funky homemade gusset used to over come the larger hole where a 6 MM stud was ripped right through ~ it's ugly but it was the _only_ fastener in the entire door that wasn't loose so I decided to leave it as is .

The door card was a little bit dirty and this is SWMBO's car so I left it off for the moment , I'll scrub it Hospital Clean before making up  new plastic dust/moisture shield (also gone missing , GRrrrr) and re assembling everything .

I also have to do the passenger side front door and look inside the rear passenger side door as it'd window is making a faint ' click ' now and then .

HAPPY NEW YEARS to all ! .

-Nate

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