Bagged Mercedes W115...

[Zman86]

Bagged Mercedes W115...

The whole thing unscrews from the shifter assembly, however the knob is not remove able from the shifter. It is made of a very high density foam around a steel core. I removed it with a razor blade. I don't even remember what I did to adapt the vintage knob to the Benz shifter, will have to review.

As for the car, Friday it's getting flatbedded up to my parents house where it will sit in the driveway until I have my own workspace that I actually own. Kicked out of the garage it's in now because the land lord "changed her mind" as she put it, and no longer wants me there.

[Zman86]

Got the boot from my workspace through no fault of my own, so had to drag the rust bucket up to my parents driveway , where it will sit until I have some place to work on it...







In the mean time, I was hired to bring this out of 4 years of improper storage for a customer in Alberta. It's a long story, but the short is I first saw the car in 2011 when I went to see it with a friend who was interested in buying it. They couldn't strike a deal, and it continued sitting in the chicken barn till this year. I found it for sale again, made an offer, he decided to keep it and hire me to get it back running again since I know the cars. Full thread following my work on it can be seen here.

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?7021271-Bringing-a-73-Mercedes-back-to-life

The color was one of the two main reasons I wanted it, the interior was the other

[mikey G]

that is just classy man. Looks great.

[Tarmac180sx]

Classy indeed I love this thing keen on seeing where this goes

[floatingdino]

DAMN, peanut butter AF

[Zman86]

Finally dragged the old bag to the new shop after it lived outside under a tarp for the winter









We purchased an old house that had a commercial garage on the property, 70x30, so now I finally have space to work





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[aLaFleur]

You lucky sob

[Euro Skank]

Joined the forum just to comment here.

Looks fantastic man. Keep up the good work!

Any interest in selling the air suspension setup? Or trading for my clean factory suspension with 100k on it? I just picked up a clean 74 240d figured I would see if you had any interest in selling the air hardware/ welded rear setup. Just a thought, in case you were looking to completely redo the air/ move in another direction. And Im local

Id rather buy a known successful setup anyway.

Keep it going!

[Zman86]

So, this happened today



'75 280, crappy white re spray at some point in its life, been in the same family for thirty years, has sat for half of that indoors. Very nice shape black interior minus the carpet. 2.8L M110 engine, secondaries on the carb are seized, same as the last Solex carb I had rebuilt, needs multiple maintenance items.

The body is surprisingly good. Drivers floor has a small soft spot as well as the drivers rocker, but it's mostly little bits of surface rust everywhere. Very solid for a Canadian car that's been neglected, I've seen quite a few now.

Picked it up for $1k Canadian. Will be taking delivery in a couple weeks. The green car is unfortunatly beyond my ability/budget to repair, so the Plan is to swap the suspension from the green car in and use the green car for parts to get this one back in roadworthy condition by spring.

[Zman86]

Some pictures from the sale ad

[Zman86]

I've started prepping what I can, and have set the donor car up on stands to start pulling what I need. Started with refurbishing the control arms from the green car so they can just be swapped into the white one. New bushings, a scrub in the parts washer and a quick coat of paint.

[bobbyjones]

'75 280, crappy white re spray at some point in its life, been in the same family for thirty years, has sat for half of that indoors. Very nice shape black interior minus the carpet. 2.8L M110 engine, secondaries on the carb are seized, same as the last Solex carb I had rebuilt, needs multiple maintenance items.

Those solex carbs aren't the best. If the the secondaries are seized i'd be willing to bet the base is warped. it's very easy to swap over to a holly carb and you can reuse the stock air cleaner. it would be a night and day difference in performance too.

[Zman86]

Those solex carbs aren't the best. If the the secondaries are seized i'd be willing to bet the base is warped. it's very easy to swap over to a holly carb and you can reuse the stock air cleaner. it would be a night and day difference in performance too.

I did a mechanical refresh on a W114 a couple years back, and the carb on his car had the same issues. I briefly looked into the Holley swap, but he wanted to keep the original, so I never got that far into it. I had the original rebuilt, and it looked great and performed flawlessly afterwards. Since it is my personal vehicle now, I may go down the swap route. Did you have the swap done in your car?




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[Zman86]

Picked up the car today and got it transported to work. However, a wrench may have been thrown in the spokes of this project, as it's looking like the engine from our '72 VW bus is going to require a rebuild, and that's going to eat our project car funds for the time being.

However, I can still do lots of work to it with my parts stash now in storage at the same location as the car. First item on the to-do list is finding and repairing the blown brake line.








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[Zman86]

Felt motivated after work, so decided to start on the car. Dropped in a battery and got it running. There is an issue with the starter grinding against the ring gear, so that will have to be addressed.



It thanked me by popping the rubber fuel hose from the tank to the steel line. In typical German engineering fashion, the outlet on the tank and the fuel line are different sizes. Drained out a bunch of at least ten year old gas.



Then on to the ten year old oil.



While waiting for the fluids to drain, I removed the front bumper and test fit the euro one. It's looking like the bumper is bent, as the spaces below the headlights are uneven side to side.








Picked away at a couple soft spots I had found while first looking at the car. Surprised to find that there's actually very little rot! It will be getting wire brushed and Por 15'd







Last but not least, opened up everything while under the heater overnight to let it air out a bit.






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