brian from laverne
Mary (195K) Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's
Re: [diesel_mercedes] Minor Miscellaneous Tasks
Brian,
As to your #9 door issues, I recently changed the door panel on my 126. It then was hard to close.
So, I took the panel off again, and was more careful about reseating the new one. Turns out that just as with the rest of the car, the German perfectionist, fiddly engineers design door panels that will fit perfectly ONE WAY. Miss a single hook or other alignment bit and the fit is WRONG.
The new panel I installed is from a more recent 126, one of those with the in-door speakers, at the rear of the map pocket. They LOOK deeper and threaten to hit the side of the seat. But in reality, when properly installed, it fit fine.
The big problem with my first try was with the dampening foam that runs along the top of the door, just under the curved in part of the panel the goes to the window channel. I used double sided tape to hold the foam strip in place. But it slipped as I was trying to get all the hooks done on the panel. Just that little bit of foam out of position messed with the door closing right. I was able to find good clean foam strips in P-a-P 126s that had not had door work.
(I don't know if the 123 models have that foam strip on their doors.)
Tom
In a message dated 4/30/2012 10:48:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, bstromsoe@yahoo.com writes:
1. DONE - 1 hour for both cars. Getting too old to crawl onm a creeper. Semi annual Oil & Filter
2. DONE - Drained, flushed, and filled (both cars stay on 85C (175F) and make me smile. Drain the radiator on Mary and put in MB orange juice.
3. DONE - New primary fuel filters for both cars. Did big filters last year.
#4-#9 are pending. Got to rest first:
4. New glow plugs for Mary, although may wait for reamer to see if carbon build up is shortening life.
5. Change rubber muffler donuts on both cars, and twist one coat hanger loop as insurance on each muffler.
6. See if I can spot where Mary's oil leak comes from (I buy $1 bag of cat litter every 3 months but that is getting old). Ditto for Martha's trannie leak.
7. Check and change fuses on both cars.
8. Photo all the accumulated PAP parts in both cars and home so I can remember what I have.
9. Take a look at my wifes seat (Martha) to see why it slips when I sit in it. Also, look at the trannie shifter to see why it is not locking in park. Maybe take the door panel off and replace the map case (repaired with Goop) with a pristine one found at a PAP. See if I can shave a little rubber from the recently replaced door seal which now requires some muscle to close.
brian from laverne, ca
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