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Previously introduced myself here: http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=57690
It's been a love-**** relationship with this car in the almost 5 months since I rescued her from rotting away behind a Ford dealership.
The short story on that was some lady from Portland owned the car and drove it often, blew up the motor in 2005, had a shop swap in the motor it has now (1.9L gas), and sold or traded it in to the Ford dealership here in town in August 2011. It then sat until this last March when a friend who worked there convinced the sales manager to sell it to me for a steal.
Since then, I've put surprisingly enough not a lot of money into it getting her back on the road, but there's still a long way to go, many setbacks, and an alarming lack of info out there on pre-1970's Benzos.
Front left brake and hub has been completely disassembled and put back together with new parts- rotor, pads, caliper seals, and wheel bearings. That fixed the seized front left caliper and the shot rotor and I haven't gotten around to doing it all over again with the front right yet. The main engine issue I'm faced with as of now is that she continually leaks oil from the valve cover, both from a hairline crack next to the oil filler and along the entire gasket. I need to try some gasket sealant, but only after I take the time to adjust the valves first. One of these days I need to acquire the proper sized jets for the carb and start replacing all the cracked hoses in the engine bay. And then I can start worrying about body work and air!
Minus the pissing oil everywhere, the few days I've braved to take her out have been some of the most fun I've had in a car!
There's just something about getting the thumbs up and smiles from random people at the sight of a rusty, dented, straight pipe Benz that makes it all worth it.
Oh and I also picked these wheels up after getting the Benz, the guy who sold me them thought they were 15x8 ET0 and he didn't know the bolt pattern, or who even made them (I got them for cheap).
Turns out they're apparently Enkei EK62's, 5x114.3, and 14x7. I haven't figured out the offset but the more I look at them the more I want to try and get them on the Benz! I'm not excited at the idea of finding hubcentric rings and wobble bolts but I might just have to try!
And here's the last exhaust clip I've taken so far (I need to go get one driving around):
It's been a love-**** relationship with this car in the almost 5 months since I rescued her from rotting away behind a Ford dealership.
The short story on that was some lady from Portland owned the car and drove it often, blew up the motor in 2005, had a shop swap in the motor it has now (1.9L gas), and sold or traded it in to the Ford dealership here in town in August 2011. It then sat until this last March when a friend who worked there convinced the sales manager to sell it to me for a steal.
Since then, I've put surprisingly enough not a lot of money into it getting her back on the road, but there's still a long way to go, many setbacks, and an alarming lack of info out there on pre-1970's Benzos.
Front left brake and hub has been completely disassembled and put back together with new parts- rotor, pads, caliper seals, and wheel bearings. That fixed the seized front left caliper and the shot rotor and I haven't gotten around to doing it all over again with the front right yet. The main engine issue I'm faced with as of now is that she continually leaks oil from the valve cover, both from a hairline crack next to the oil filler and along the entire gasket. I need to try some gasket sealant, but only after I take the time to adjust the valves first. One of these days I need to acquire the proper sized jets for the carb and start replacing all the cracked hoses in the engine bay. And then I can start worrying about body work and air!
Minus the pissing oil everywhere, the few days I've braved to take her out have been some of the most fun I've had in a car!
There's just something about getting the thumbs up and smiles from random people at the sight of a rusty, dented, straight pipe Benz that makes it all worth it.
Oh and I also picked these wheels up after getting the Benz, the guy who sold me them thought they were 15x8 ET0 and he didn't know the bolt pattern, or who even made them (I got them for cheap).
Turns out they're apparently Enkei EK62's, 5x114.3, and 14x7. I haven't figured out the offset but the more I look at them the more I want to try and get them on the Benz! I'm not excited at the idea of finding hubcentric rings and wobble bolts but I might just have to try!
And here's the last exhaust clip I've taken so far (I need to go get one driving around):
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