Mercedes W114 250 Coupe - help!

[Charles Morgan]

Much more progress today but I forgot my camera. Glovebox now in but for the latch and a hinge, which I hope to find, plus rear window mechanisms in too. One important thing to do is filling the trim holes (there are almost 200 of them) with cavity wax, plus around the headlights and all the areas where water can build up. Cans of the stuff are going in.

 

[Charles Morgan]

Found my glovebox latch and hinge. Not sure a plastic takeaway box in the downstairs loo is the most logical place, but it obviously must have been at the time.

 

[Charles Morgan]

Second wing now on, complete with hole for the Hirschmann aerial. The tape you see on the left is the contemporary equivalent of Dum Dum, used for spacing and to ensure metal isn't rubbing against metal.

You can see that where the headlights join the wing there is a folded in section of metal with a whacking great cavity all around it. This is a veritable rust trap, so that will be filled with cavity wax (as with the other wing).

With the wings on, the doors can go in and be adjusted to the right height and then the windows can start.

(photos sent on to me by John at Project Shop as I decided to have a day of finding things!).

 

[grober]

Any sign of the redrilled/refabricated fuel rail Charles? Guess when the distributor eventually goes you will have to blank of the shaft "orifice" ???

 

[Charles Morgan]

Not yet Graeme, they are working on it, but I can't say the sense of urgency is there.

Someone's finally noticed the B Jet distributor...

 

[Mike Walker]

Looking really good Charles. Still my favourite thread although Bruce's was very good too )

 

[Druk]

@charles.

'You can see that where the headlights join the wing there is a folded in section of metal with a whacking great cavity all around it. This is a veritable rust trap, so that will be filled with cavity wax (as with the other wing)'.

Early 107's have the same entrapment problem solved by fitting the facelift innerwing bucket. Since its 2004 rebuild mine has nary a spot of dirt in that region. Worthy of investigation? Even if they didn't form a perfect fit most of the worst of the muck would be prevented.

 

[Charles Morgan]

Interesting - got a part number Derek?

 

[Druk]

. Knew you would ask that. Plus tard.

 

[Charles Morgan]

While on the subject of parts, the wing bolts you see above are temporary to help spacing, the correct ones having been ordered. Using the part number from the EPC online suppliers offered them for £6.30, and MB £2.54. Unfortunately, the MB price is for one, the online price is for 20 delivered. Bit of a no brainer that one.

 

[brucemillar]

Looking very good now Charles. Exciting times indeed when you see it all start to look like the end is in sight.

 

[ianrandom]

@charles.

'You can see that where the headlights join the wing there is a folded in section of metal with a whacking great cavity all around it. This is a veritable rust trap, so that will be filled with cavity wax (as with the other wing)'.

Early 107's have the same entrapment problem solved by fitting the facelift innerwing bucket. Since its 2004 rebuild mine has nary a spot of dirt in that region. Worthy of investigation? Even if they didn't form a perfect fit most of the worst of the muck would be prevented.

They really work. Someone changed the wing before me on my W126, and never fitted the plastic arch protector thing back. The dirt got flung into the forward edge of the wing by the headlight and now guess what i see! (Rust.)

I fitted the protector now, bit late though really. The other side of the car has no such issue, its got its plastic protector thing intact.

 

[Charles Morgan]

Another busy day. Re-machined fuel rail arrived, now the holes are as tight as possible.

Bonnet mounted and fitted. That resulted in a three dimensional puzzle as we tried hard to reduce panel gaps to 70s Benz rather than 70s British Leyland, and we largely succeeded.

Irritatingly I have to be away tomorrow and Wednesday, so will miss lots of things happening. John intends to fabricate two strong brackets for the fuel rail, which has a boss on which makes spacing from the head further, so easier to access.

Found dial rings

Glovebox needs a bit more fiddling but is much better

I've now found a switch to fill the empty hole, which will operate the driving lights

 

[Druk]

Interesting - got a part number Derek?

. Knew you would ask that. Plus tard.

Not forgotten you Charles, just that my access to the EPC has disappeared since switching to iMac. I'm working at that problem. Would it help if I took some piccies of the underside of a 107 inner wing?

 

[Charles Morgan]

That would be nice Derek - I have an EPC subscription so can have a look in that area too.

 

[Druk]

Ok, I'll post some up later today. If you're on EPC it's >86 cars you're looking for, eg 300SL, and there's a seal that goes with the liner to its outer edge/wing surface.

 

[brucemillar]

Not forgotten you Charles, just that my access to the EPC has disappeared since switching to iMac. I'm working at that problem. Would it help if I took some piccies of the underside of a 107 inner wing?

Derek

You may wish to look into installing Virtual Box on your Mac. That will allow you to run Windows and it's free (or used to be)

 

[Charles Morgan]

I run mine via Parallels, which isn't free, but pretty painless to use.

 

[grober]

this help?


152 is Partition Panel
A1078840305 left
A1078840405 right
158 Is Seal
A1078840198

 

[grober]

The MERC EPC uses JAVA which doesn't run on Imacs or android devices AFAIK Only way is to use it within an Windows emulation programme as has been said VIRTUAL PC is another emulation programme that has been mentioned.
http://www.howtogeek.com/187359/5-ways-to-run-windows-software-on-a-mac/