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The archilles heel of the M116 and M117 motor is the timing chain and many a good car will die an early death if the timing chain is not changed every 100,000 miles and particularly in conjunction with the plastic sliders and hydraulic tensioner with it's own plastic slider (Liner). It was also...

Here are the Continentals on my E500 - 18 inch wheels with 245 section on the front and 265 on the rear. They are now up to 28,000 km and still look to have plenty of life left in them - which is good as I will have to make a financial arrangement to replace them when the time comes.:D They...

Here is my little library of Sphere brands and they appear to be selling a Lemfoeder - looks a little too shiny and missing it's yellow sticker and dab of paint. That on the left is a Mercedes Benz OEM original red dot front, the one in the centre is a Lemfoeder rear, the one on the right is...

This is the M117 addition to the earlier "1972 introduction to service" W116 publication which did not include the 450 motor. Bill

Old style PDF with poor quality which has been crunched but all the necessary information should be available.

Wiring Diagram for 6.9 as supplied to Australian Agents. Early and late models by VIN numbers.

M-B Publication - 1972 Passenger cars type 116 This is an original M-B publication on the introduction of the W116 model. Bill

This manual was produced yearly by M-B and details specs for all M-B models worldwide for the preceding 5 or so years. The index is in the last few pages and it has been scanned two pages at a time as it is a very small format book so if you wish to find a specific page you need to divide the...

Automatic Transmission Repair Manual Unfortunately this manual has to be broken down into two parts as it exceeds the 5 meg pdf allowance and the index (bookmarking ) is lost. Bill.

Over the years I have often done a mid interval oil and filter change on my newer cars as the service interval can be quite a number of kilometres (eg ML270CDI - 28,000 km) although the last two petrol Benzes I have owned have had intervals of less than 20,000 and also have had no dip stick -...

In two weeks time I will be driving up to Carnarvon for a Lodge/Boys weekend with the same gang I have done the trek with the previous two years. Last year I took my wife's ML320CDI and easily travelled the 950 km from my place via the pickup point in Scarborough to Carnarvon on 1 tank with 150...

I have really enjoyed seeing some beautiful engineering lyijng around my shed floor looking as pristine as I can get it but time came when it should be returned to it's place of birth. It was lifted with the engine crane and placed on teh jig and then the car was lifted high enough to fit it...

With the entire rear end out of the car the aged look of the rear rubber fuel hoses started to get to me so I collected the three hoses - 2 off e-bay and one from autohausaz as well as a new filter and a packet of copper sealing washes ( The washers cost 20 cents each - there are 5 of them -...

It sounds mighty strange to me that a sphere would pack up that quickly. Presumably it is only one that has failed and if it is that new maybe replacing just one would be an option. Failing that have you still got the old ones - if one is any good it would be worthwhile swapping the new bad...

Apart from the general complexity of a big modern mercedes the 500 is a nice balance between big and reasonable and is really the product that M-B excels at. The only common problem I have heard about is failure of the pump that works the door closers and even then I know the Star Shop in Perth...

Even though some of us grew up with drum brakes the 116 handbrake is fiddly and time consuming to repair as it is small and hidden behind the large flange of the hub. Faults I have personally encountered in 116/126 land include sticking mechanism causing the shoes to burn out and a rusted and...

It is no harder to put in flanges and 560 drive shafts than it is to change the old driveshafts and hopefully it will be a permanent fix as I have already attempted a repair on the RH axleshaft and had no wish to replace old for old and possibly dodgy. It also allows me to remove a shaft with...

Before the driveshaft problem made it mandatory I have spent two years working out how to change the diagonal shaft bushings while the rear end was in the car. It is great challenge as the outer mounting bolts end up blocked by the side frames of the car. RonB came up with a suggestion to...

I have been very apprehensive about torqueing up these rear hubs due to reports of disasters from others so I have requested advice wherever it was available and two pieces of really useful advice came my way. 1) S class said my hub might deform if I tried to torque up the crush ring without...

A question for Styria or someone else with the clevers. I have never torqued up a rear hub and realise the forces involved to crush the crush washer and get the correct 0.04mm freeplay are quite large. I propose bolting the hub to one of the old discs in the reverse direction to normal and...