Diesel RVs: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Re: Driver Seat Repair

Check MercedesSource for their utube on seat repair. The first trick is to take the seat out and turn it over to see what is broke, loose, flumoxed. Most of the time it is just too many 300 pound butts over 25 years. The good news is that it is eminently fixable. DieselGiant (and others) have some good pics on pool noodle repair, but I think MercedesSource gets to the heart of the matter + they have utube video. They will sell you a "fixit" kit too, but hey lets help keep them in business so we can get more videos.

brian from la verne, ca

From: LarryC <larry.collins@eku.edu>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, January 13, 2011 3:53:50 PM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Re: w123 Air Cannister

Brian,
Let me know how the seat repair goes. I just bought this 92 3ooD and the interior is beautiful but the drivers seat is like sitting in a garbage can with no bottom. There is no support in the seat bottom.
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, "brian's twin 83 300d's" <bstromsoe@...> wrote:
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> I thought of Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg Address quote this morning as I lifted my wife air canister into the air ("The world
> will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here"). First, my wife did not know that 2 of her 3 grommets were loose because the nuts had dropped off, thereby allowing her can to shake, rattle, and roll. Second, she does not know that I put new grommets, nuts, and washers on and cleaned 270,000 miles of grease and grime off the engine. Third, how exciting it was to discover a plastic cap like off a Tide bottle inside the canister among the usual bees, bugs, and leafy materials.
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> And, I took the first day of 2011 to also top off the power steering fluid - remember, I changed filters earlier and a dry filter soaks up an ounce or two of fluid.
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> Looking forward to more maintenance items in 2011 plus a few heavy duty mechanic type stuff - and a few good trips along the way. Next up - taking the drivers seat out of Martha and fixing what needs fixing, then valve adjustments in both cars, vacuum run downs on both cars, air conditioning rehabs on both as summer approaches, and radio/antenna cures on both.. Oh yah, the state is looking at an increase on car registrations to help pay our way out of debt. Lets see, 1.8% of vehicle value =s 1.8% x $2000 =s $30-$40 - yep, I can handle that.
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> brian from la verne.
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