Bagged Mercedes W115...

[Zman86]

Separated the engine and transmission so I could get the engine on a stand. Swapping the upper oil pans since the turbo pan does not clear the 115 subframe is required. I attempted to remove it with the engine standing up, but a lot of the small Allen's easily stripped despite cleaning and blowing them all out. Turning the engine upside-down made it much easier to deal with the stripped ones. Next step is getting the turbo engine on the stand so the oil pans can be swapped.

[RENAUD]

Definitely one of the most legendary W115s in the world, love the transformation of this car!

so true...

awesome job and car and energy for keeping it in good shape

[Zman86]

Thanks guys!

A lot of stuff has been happening, plus it's been stupidly cold up here, so not a lot has been done on the car lately. However, all my new suspension bushings arrived, all I have left to find is rear subframe bushings. For some reason the 300D bushings are unobtanium, and differ from other W115 bushings somehow, I've not yet been able to find out the difference.




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[Neoki]

diesel power yea! what happened with the w123 man?

[Zman86]

The 123 was bought strictly as a donor car for the engine, it was terribly, terribly rotten, but apparently had a rebuilt engine in it with 10k on it.

Beating it when we were still on the farm

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGO-zN4wiM&feature=youtube_gdata_player&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKWGO-zN4wiM%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player

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[Zman86]

Thanks for the compliments!

A Benz enthusiast friend and I went to check out a parts car yesterday. The owner had told me it had a blue interior, so I wrote it off as being much use. However, when we got there, the interior turned out to be a near mint all black one. I've been looking for an interior for nearly three years, and I've finally found it. Unfortunately I did not get pictures yet, but this is the car it's coming out of


Got a bit of time in on the green bastard today after finding this in the junkyard. It was untouched, so I got a carb for our Bel-air and a bunch of other really cool stuff for a future rod project.


Then it was off to the garage.





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[Zman86]

New signal covers, city light covers and brake flex hoses arrived earlier this week.



Went out today to get my new interior. Beautiful day, -8*c with no windchill. Had everything I wanted out in about 4 hours. I thought I could maybe convert the '76 doors to the earlier ones with the smokers vent windows, but after taking everything out of the doors, I realized I probably won't be able too, so I have to return to get them since there was no room left in the girlfriends Volvo 240. Converting to manual crank windows, just because I like the look of them better plus you get a much cleaner centre console without the window switches.






Found lots of stuff under the seats, but this was the best.






Wagon loaded up.


Home at last



Love the chrome brackets on the older seats.


Hopefully getting the turbo diesel over to the shop tomorrow so I can start on fitting the engine...


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[mike-81-240d]

Interior looks great! i'm debating dying my palomino leather black.

[Zman86]

I personally love palomino, but I've never come across one in a 115 up here that has aged well. This black interior took me three years and looking at over a dozen cars to find, and I've never seen a black 115 interior in person before this one.


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[OhArA]

Perfect project, Im whatching here in Brazil, congratulations!

[Amgcdi]

Nice Merc.

[Zman86]

Thanks!

Been stupidly cold up here for the last few weeks, and I only have a small propane heater for the shop, so not a lot of time has been spent with the car. Things are warming up though, so I should get to it this weekend. Today's mini project was adding some protection to the lower oil pan. Along with raising the engine mounts up a bit, busted oil pans should no longer be an issue.





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[Raarasutra]

Yeah I should do that to my pan... Nice interior man, looks fucking mint

[Zman86]

Another snowy day in Ontario, had 5-10cm of heavy, wet snow in the last few hours.


Perfect afternoon to start on the drivers floor pan.

Here's the old patch piece that was completely rotten, held in with self tappers. The grey in the lower part of the pic was a seat mount, pretty much only attached to undercoat


Patch removed, not looking good



Dead metal cut out. Good news is all of the braces are intact and in good shape. Bad news is the rocker is pretty much fudged in the front.




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[Zman86]

Tonight's plan was to pull the front fenders off for better access to the rot in the foot wells. After stripping everything, the fenders would not budge, then I remembered why. I read somewhere long ago that the fenders on these things are glued on. They most defiantly are. I tried to break the seam with prying, but did not get very far, so the next option is using heat.



Earlier in the week, I made up an adapter to allow me to run the vintage shift knob I bought last year. Turned out pretty good. Also disassembled the shifter, cleaned out all the garbage 40 year old grease, re-lubed and re-assembled.







I've been getting a lot of welding and fab jobs at work lately, since most of the shop does not want anything to do with it, and I jump at the chance to. I'm getting better, but still have a long way to go. Hopefully I'm going to get good enough to do all the welding/fab on the Mercedes and my girlfriend and I's other projects.