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Mercedes W114 250 Coupe - help!
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A few hour with Photoshop or similar software may help. It will be a stunning car whatever your eventual choice.
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A few hour with Photoshop or similar software may help. It will be a stunning car whatever your eventual choice.
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Sadly, my little lathe couldn't cope with the hardened steel. However, I do know a man with a rather nice milling machine. There's not a lot of meat left on the shaft when the undercutting for oil seals and circlips is taken in to account but it did drill and tap for M6 and a high-tensile bolt Loktited in.
Same done for the broken end.
Then brazed up ready for machining back the circlip groove.
Then we'll do some hopefully non-destructive testing to see how strong it is before dispatch to its legal owner.
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Same done for the broken end.
Then brazed up ready for machining back the circlip groove.
Then we'll do some hopefully non-destructive testing to see how strong it is before dispatch to its legal owner.
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Charles Morgan
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What fantastic work! Many thanks indeed Derek, a proper dockyard job!
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Ahem. If it works I take no credit for the job other than I know the man who did it. The same man who did these little beauties.
Sometimes it's not what you know...
Of course if it doesn't work I know exactly who to blame.
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Sometimes it's not what you know...
Of course if it doesn't work I know exactly who to blame.
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Charles Morgan
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Of course if it doesn't work I know exactly who to blame.
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The idiot who broke it in the first place...
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There being nothing to report, I'm putting up a test card.
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What a beauty! And the colour.
They call it champagne on their webiste. It might be the lighting or colour balance, but it looks more like beigegrau metallic to me.
They call it champagne on their webiste. It might be the lighting or colour balance, but it looks more like beigegrau metallic to me.
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Absolutely gorgeous!
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Charles Morgan
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I think I know what the colour is, but I might troll along to them and check. It's certainly blooming nice. They also have a 250CE auto for sale which it might be fun to test drive as well as a 380SLC in magnetite blue. I've always believed that checking a car in the flesh is essential when it comes to colour - oddly, when I did that with the Allard it was at a dealer not 3 miles distant from this one!
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We have one in storage, not a 3.5 though...in Tektite...a beauty. If I remember I'll take a pic later and post.
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Grab a pic of the colour code plate as well if you could Ciaran - it's probably anthracite 172 unless it's been resprayed in later Tektite grey.
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Charles Morgan
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A Royce is sufficiently vulgar to pass that off as tasteful!
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Hehe, touche 
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I can't be doing with shiny wraps, they just look like cheap sweet packaging gone wrong. Matt is a different kettle of fishy on a little dishy, but I like paint.
Just back from sunny North Norfolk whence I drove in my Alpina, a blast of a car to drive, and collected lots more bits from Colin. So I now have a steering box and pump from a 58k car, ditto heater fan, auto box throttle linkage, brand new water pump and excellent starter motor, as well as the bulkhead insulation so I can trace a template for my new insulation (mine disintegrated on removal).
Looked in yesterday at the body shop to find that Peter had returned to the car and had installed the new fan surround and was close to finishing the panel between the cabin bulkhead and firewall. Only now the two rear quarters to do and any minor bits underneath. Moving again!
Just back from sunny North Norfolk whence I drove in my Alpina, a blast of a car to drive, and collected lots more bits from Colin. So I now have a steering box and pump from a 58k car, ditto heater fan, auto box throttle linkage, brand new water pump and excellent starter motor, as well as the bulkhead insulation so I can trace a template for my new insulation (mine disintegrated on removal).
Looked in yesterday at the body shop to find that Peter had returned to the car and had installed the new fan surround and was close to finishing the panel between the cabin bulkhead and firewall. Only now the two rear quarters to do and any minor bits underneath. Moving again!
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I showed Dan at the body shop the pics of that "champagne" S class above and his first reaction was to suggest it had had a very recent blow over. I tried to go and see it but the vendor rather aggressively insisted that I appear at a time which I could not do, so I suggested he might like to re-locate his car somewhere anatomically difficult.
Time now to pull together the MS spec.
Time now to pull together the MS spec.
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Also time to look at the other mechanical bits. I'm toying with getting the sub-frames off (the rear ones will have to be re-bushed and re-sprung, the front merely the latter) and have them shot blasted and powder-coated. It's money, but the result will be altogether better than leaving them in their existing state (sound structurally but aesthetically tatty).
At the same time, I may see about the rear diff replacement for a 3.6 rather 3.9 one (assuming that's on my car). With the manual box it would really help cruising and as later 250CEs have them it can't have been a great issue to switch. Speedo results would be different I assume though.
At the same time, I may see about the rear diff replacement for a 3.6 rather 3.9 one (assuming that's on my car). With the manual box it would really help cruising and as later 250CEs have them it can't have been a great issue to switch. Speedo results would be different I assume though.
