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My rear screen has suffered from the usual 116 laminated screen delamination since I purchased it and it was one of those "must do sometime" jobs. So courtesy of Tom Hansen at the Classic Centre Irvine a brand new screen (correct part number) duly arrived as previously posted - the hardest...

All you experienced guys look the other way (criticism of course always welcome) but it might help someone to get started in meaningfully working on their own 116. Start with the steering wheel at the central position - hopefully your steering is centralised - If not here is another posting to...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

When I rebuilt the front end of my 6.9 I found that the right hand front hub had had water ingress in it so I decided I wanted to check all other bearings in case the car had sat in water. This meant that I wanted to strip all the rear bearings (and there are five in each side of a torque...

Success!!!! I heated the area of the disc that is normally behind the wheel near the junction between the disc and the hub without applying heat direct to the hub. I was surprised how little heat was transferred to the hub itself - not worried as I am replacing the hub bearings anyway. Then...

This relatively simple procedure is fraught with problems as it involves potentially moving the pinion position and causing my nice quiet diff to become a howler. I would have preferred to leave well alone but as it had a weep it could not be ignored. The manual calls for initial measurement...