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Defrost idea did not work. Vacuum pod works and has travel but no air actually goes to defrost. Have some from central with the hard prop and sent some down for now.
The trip actually was not over yet. Late night swap to enclosed trailer before junky gets to the destination. Had to install aftermarket fuel injection and add transmission fluid and on the next trailer it went.
Northish Texas. He is trying to clear out the property. Only couple of vehicle are to stay, the rest everything for sale. There is a decent size building with a bunch of misc parts from multiple part outs as well. About 10 or so cars already left to scrap before I got thereAre those photos from the seller's place? Oklahoma?
Wait. This was Alabassi's place?
This was farther north
Drove in to the garage on a bottle. Time to strip it. Engine actually sounds pretry healthy and starts right up. Transmission shifts. I am mostly keeping some interior pieces and hardware. The rest for sale. have a bunch of parts in the trunk.
Let's see. I need all of the plastic splash shield and ducting bits from behind the bumper and under the engine. I'm missing basically all of it. My console burl wood is in mediocre condition. Front brake calipers might be a good idea. Front corner marker lights if you have them. That's all I can think of at the moment.
I will start sorting out tomorrow. Console is not in good shape and front corner lights are missing. Most of others likely available
Not much of the front plastics left on the 420. For now shifted focus on train wreck prep. Heavily debating if just weld up the hole by the sunroof or delete the sunroof by welding a panel in.
Decided to fix the sunroof. But do not want to go through sunroof removal again. Still a lot of work before it is back together. Need to locate outer side window sweeps and front drain tube for the sun roof. Along with all the felts for the sunroof mechanism. Would like to get a new sunroof seal as well.
Barely made it on time to the shop. Had to make a little patch panel.
To put back together
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I wonder if it is worth the hassle to change for thicker side windows. Does it cut down noise enough to matter?
I had a 91 GMC Suburban a while back that went through full sound insulation routine and the windows were remaining as the biggest noise source. GM actually went backwards on those with thicker glass in the 73-80 models and to thinner in 81-91. I am not sure if I will ever get this car to the same insulation level as it is not a long distance driver. Maybe will just keep the thicker glass for just in case but not swap in at this time. Already have a lot of work lined up and not much time.
Small steps. Changed the switch on the locks from the parts car. Also test fitted intake tube from earlier inline 6 car. I prefer the cleaner look and wll switch out the other one out as well.
Had intake gasket change to do on the Burban and still a lot of tuning to work out, so this was put on the back for a bit. Plus three batteries died across various things.
Had intake gasket change to do on the Burban and still a lot of tuning to work out, so this was put on the back for a bit. Plus three batteries died across various things.
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Crusty ready for a last drive before motor being pulled out. Cobled together just to get some ability to run.
Crusty is getting empty. New sunroof seal and used sunroof frame installed.
Also, tore down one of the seats. Figuring out repair options. Already fixed the track motors.
Sunroof service. Spare assembly for initial tear down investigation.
Seats out for upholstery. Most of the white crusty is going away. Finally had time to fully strip the back half.
Can you pull out the can shaft solenoid for cheap?
Motor soldCan you pull out the can shaft solenoid for cheap?
Very slow with a lot of other things going on, but second half of the crusty went out to scrap.
Not a real ss. Currently running just an old 350 motor as big block is out for a rebuild with head/cam and efi. Still have the turbo big block build to finish sorting out on a different vehicle and other projects, so things end up being slow. I had 454 part taped off for a while but tape fell off at some point.
When parting out crusty, it really looked like mercedes was running out of space on these cars with packaging of wiring and other components. Definately was not a quick assembly process either.
A lot of things has been done, but still have a lot to get done just to get it back to moving. Not to the point of being back on the road yet. Been busy with some of the other things.
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