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Some bits arrived. Not sure I really believe they're genuine resistorless bosch plugs given the forum wisdom (circa 2006!) on 116.org that such can only be got from Herr Benz's Private Stash... but that's what they claim to be. Some ignition leads. Yes of course I stuffed up and got the...

Point well taken. All that packaging trouble is the sort of thing I'd probably have gotten fed up with before making any costly mistakes *if* I'd started working through all the implications of such a swap before recklessly ebaying under the influence. But fortunately I'm naturally inclined to...

Ooouuu, amg style... I see no evidence of this rust, so at least it's in better shape than my car (thats not saying much tho...)

See now that im not only looking at engine out anyway, but $6-800 of new ignition and $300 of injection service plus my time, valve covers off and probably timing chain to factor in before I even get it into the garage to do it, the reason to consider a Ford swap is not even "easy power" or cost...

I tackled my Starter Rebuilding Apprenticeship this week. Discovered the magnitude of overengineering and complete lack of labour cost minimisation in the old (original?) starter vs the reman (and later design) one is quite startling. These (thread locked!) screws hold the cover plate for the...

I think that was true the moment I pulled the Aeros off it :) In all seriousness I'd love to go 5.0 (that one's either one of the ECE ones they made after the 5.6 [if I read your blog right, Bryce?] or someone has swapped the "amg style" tri Y headers onto it, so... sweaty palms etc...) because...

Staring down the barrel of having to pull out the engine and transmission to replace the ring gear anyway, and wondering how likely it is that there's nothing internally wrong with the m116... eBay is tormenting me with plausible-sounding bad ideas... Change my mind? I have nowhere to store...

New starter arrived yesterday. But first some low hanging fruit: Been missing one of these bonnet catch bumpers since day one, always had to remind myself not to do the Panel Beater Bonnet Drop... Resin 3d printer at work to the rescue... Dimensions could use a little fine tuning, but it...

Oooh, good to know! I haven't had the tyre pulled off yet but it was full of grass blades as if someone had seated it flat on a lawn with a backyard compressor, so the possibility that there was just enough gunk trapped between the bead and seat (or that whoever did the work damaged the bead...

Opened it up to dry it out. Decided to pull off the wheel and clean the garden out from the front guard before it rusts the left like the right already has. Decided to start pulling shocks in advance of swapping to raised "lowering springs". Was amazed to discover the front springs are uncut...

Place holder for... Oh no wait. I finally got some help and we confirmed the thing wants to spark (in 1 crank revolution). Pulling the fuel pump relay did not give the starter enough juice to get momentum up to make it past the bald spot, so we pulled the starter*. It had suffered. It had...

Place holder for trying to start it with fuel available

Place holder for seats vs steam cleaner. Spoiler: they were dirtier than they looked. But not so bad.

Place holder for rear springs escaping the spring perches and killing shocks on the way.

Place holder for the update where I pulled the fuel tank out and replaced most of the back end fuel system components that get clogged and stop working. Because they had gotten clogged and stopped working.

Might as well finally start my build thread given I've lurked here a year now :) Since I was using a little room heater fan thing to dry out water that had seeped through the year-old car cover on the weekend, I'm starting all over again in some respects, so I might as well finally start...

Wow. Quite interesting for someone like me who has a lot to do on a w116 but not much experience, especially since its a Hong Kong car. Was a bit surprised they didn't pull the trans out the front with the engine though. And that lay-on-top patch welding technique, is that really the best way?

Oh wow, that's an interesting "tell". Sounds like the coupes were pitched as more upmarket than the roadsters then. Odd given their respective worth now... Meanwhile, for anyone who would love a car in the colour and trim combination "Drug Dealer"...

Oh they're the wrong seats? Like w126 coupe or something? Was wondering what the go was with those exposed frames that seem to only lean forward on the outside of the driver's side.... 🤦‍♀️

https://www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/1977-mercedes-benz-450slc-auto/SSE-AD-15152786 Seems our man had his car on gumtree for 29k, got sick of waiting so put it up for auction via Lloyd's, bidding petered out <7k, now he's put it on carsales for 24k. Unless thats the winning bidder turning a...