jaypee Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 On 6/9/2021 at 12:13 PM, dome said: Top rear entrance action! Can you fix/replace the microswitch on the old one and sell it on to get some money back? Eh, potentiometerlly.... FNAR... Twiggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 On 6/9/2021 at 12:53 PM, Talbot said: The soft-close on these isn't essential. If you move the motor back to it's normal "rest" position, the tailgate just works like a normal one and doesn't soft-close, but otherwise works like any other two-click position boot lock. The last S124 I worked on had it unplugged, and it still worked (without the soft-close) just fine. Usually they're very reliable. Mine has only just started not engaging the motor sometimes, but with a swift tap to the tailgate does then engage. It'll be a sticky/gummed up microswitch somewhere. Other than the switch, they're as reliable as windscreen wipers... as that's essentially what the motor is. Cheers for this dude, will have a look, I did have a play about with it, but could not get it to work properly. Motor is still strong as an ox though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 MPG UPDATE! 320touring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 11, 2021 Share Posted June 11, 2021 Also, this video is doing unexpectedly well... Am I now an influencer....? 😂😂😂 320touring, Jim Bell, RobT and 2 others 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 MOAR MPGSESESES! Jim Bell, The Moog and 320touring 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted June 19, 2021 Author Share Posted June 19, 2021 8 minutes ago, jaypee said: MOAR MPGSESESES! No way? That's mega MPG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 1 minute ago, 320touring said: No way? That's mega MPG! WAY! Aye, it's been getting shoed as well. 320touring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I did some more work on the paint on Saturday, after a stern word with myself, I promised to take my time and not rush things. First off, the primered area under the passenger rear window, Sanded down A bit of filler and some new primer was added, then the first application of base coat. Nice! Colour wasn't a million miles away but the car has definitely faded over the years. Was looking good, best not rush the second coat of base......... Arses. It had a run, I thought, 'I'll leave that to dry and then sand it back', then I thought... 'nah, I'll just catch it with a rag and paint it back in' suffice to say, neither of those worked, the above is what was left, at this point, I paused for lunch and let the paint dry. After lunch it was sanded and re-primed, and painted. From that point on, I set a timer on my phone after each application, and solemnly stuck to it! Coprolalia, Split_Pin, 320touring and 8 others 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Next, it was onto the front wings, seen earlier in the thread. Now that I had access to the grinder and sander, I did some tidying up, and filling, and sanding, oh god, the sanding! Time for some colour... You can see on these the slight mismatch of the colour, but it's certainly a lot better than it was! The Moog, Peter C, RobT and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Some 'final' (or, that's it, I am going home) pics. Just got the feathering in/blending and lacquer to put on. Again, as I say, a metric fuck tonne better than it was, almost looks 'decent'* from 10 yards. After a full 11 hours of paint and sand and fill and wait and sand and fill and wait and sand...... .. Etc I called it quits and headed for home .. That would be a nice and event free* journey Peter C, rainagain, Andyrew and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 As I exited the M77 on my way home, I turned onto Haggs Road and made my way to St Andrew's Drive, as I meandered along Haggs Road, I was met, by, what I felt was a very definite CLUNK from the front off side. Oh, great* I thought. Best get home and have a look tomorrow, when less tired. Plans were in place for Sunday, brunch with my mate. So after, I decided to see my folks, jumped in the merc and set off, convinced that the clunk heard last night was just an over active imagination, fuelled by filler dust and paint fumes. Alas, I was incorrect. It was still there, and quite disconcerting. A cursory look yielded no clues. Pressed for time, I turned home and took the e30 out for a blast. On my return I liaised with @320touring and a plan was hatched to have a look after dinner. In preparation for the visit, I carried out the idiot check and confirmed all wheels were indeed bolted on correctly. My suspicion was, either a fubarred bush, a broken spring or an 'ARB drop link' even although it does not technically have any at the front. When Neil arrived, we went out a recon mission, the noise was pin pointed at the front right. Suggestions were made that a top mount may also be a culprit. A quick jack up, and wheel removal allowed us to discover. This bracket... Which should be attached to, this arb bush Which, it wasn't, so with the bracket removed, we put it back together and took it a test drive over the splendid* road surfaces of Pollokshields. SUCCESS! The clunk was away! You may note, that I replaced this bracket as part of the front suspension refresh, obviously it was a great* quality* part. Anyhow, a new one has been ordered for this ungrateful thing! Cheers to @320touringfor the assistance blackboilersuit, 320touring, Carlosfandango and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Wings look loads better now, the lacquer will probably blend it in a bit more. jaypee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 ANOTHER MPG UPDATE sdkrc, Shite Ron, 320touring and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 How come putting that bracket on upped the mpgs? I'd say put more brackets on. SRi05, CreepingJesus, sdkrc and 6 others 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 Some more progress on the merc this week, a quick* filler job turned out to not be possible.... Hopefully the pics will cover it off. Many thanks for the assistance to @320touring who kept an eye on me whilst I did a great job of making a mess of welding 😂 Also a special thanks to S_PEWGS.. ( @Split_PinEmergency Welding Gas Services) who kindly got us out of a tight spot! Again, it's not factory fresh, but it at least has metal in it, another wee skim of filler and sanding should see it ready for paint. The other rear arch looks fine from straight on, however is a little bit bubbly on the lower lip, so that's next! meshking, dome, rml2345 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted July 4, 2021 Author Share Posted July 4, 2021 I'm really glad you decided to weld it up - you're making a grand job of making this into a much better car that it would have been if I had kept it! Getting there with the welding too! loserone, jaypee, sdkrc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 OMG MPG UPDATE Shite Ron, Lacquer Peel and 320touring 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 Did some more work on the Merc this weekend. Finished off the driver side rear arch and did the passenger side rear arch too! Driver side done, just needs blending and lacquer. Passenger side rear arch wasn't too bad. Again, not too bad, certainly looking a lot better than previous! Of course, you wouldn't expect anything unfortunate to happen now, would you..? Due to this being an ungrateful, cow bag bastard it's gone and sprung a leak from the suspension pipes! Great*! #stancelyfm9 It looks like the pipe that runs from the accumulator out to the rear shock. So, further investigation is required! Cunt! Anyway, from about 20 yards, if you squint, it almost looks presentable.... Split_Pin, Dyslexic Viking, dome and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlosfandango Posted July 12, 2021 Share Posted July 12, 2021 They are a bastard when the fluid leaks from them - someone told me that they boughterated the suspension concept from citroen, but I may have dreamed that or been drunk. Or am drunk. Anyway, nice update. Bloody love these cars. I’ve had quite a few but none over the last 3/4 years but remedied that recently with a W124 saloon. Keep up the good work @jaypee CFD jaypee, Jim Bell and 320touring 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 8 hours ago, Carlosfandango said: They are a bastard when the fluid leaks from them - someone told me that they boughterated the suspension concept from citroen, but I may have dreamed that or been drunk. Or am drunk. Anyway, nice update. Bloody love these cars. I’ve had quite a few but none over the last 3/4 years but remedied that recently with a W124 saloon. Keep up the good work @jaypee CFD I can hear you Carlos Fandango! Cheers, aye, I believe it's licenced from Citroën, @320touring should be able to verify, as we have had fun with the GSA in that regard. Aye, they are pretty comfy when they work. Just need to get it fixed at some point. The saloon sounds sensible due to lack of SLS 😊 Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 The SLS on these is really simple. It is indeed a Citroenesque system, but with springs fitted too, which means the vehicle doesn't sink (too much) when it's off. The Spheres are mounted in the car, withing the triangle formed between the rear seatback and the boot-seats seatback. You'll find a screwed-down panel that removes, revealing the spheres. The rear dampers aren't really dampers, just hydraulic struts. These connect with the pipes shown to the spheres, and there's a height corrector on the rear anti-roll bar. I'm not sure where the damper drillings are, as I don't believe they're in the spheres on this.. probably in the hydraulic struts. The spheres have to be unbolted from under the car, but then are removed from within the car. The system holds only about 10%-20% of the weight of the car, the other 80%-90% being held on the springs. Consequently, the sphere charge pressure isn't actually very high.. just enough to ensure that fluid moves back and forth to the sphere as the suspension moves. Last time I checked, the spheres are still available from mercedes for fairly reasonable prices. I think I paid about £60 each for a pair, and it completely transformed the S124 I was working on. The hydraulic lines are very basic, and could either be replaced or likely repaired by someone like Pirtek hydraulics. Also, the remarkably-expensive mercedes fluid for these is in fact the same spec as LHM, which is of course a lot cheaper. Lob that in. It's a great system, which appears to be very reliable indeed. The spheres seem to last a lot longer than the equivalent Citroen ones, which I'm convinced is because they hold less weight. Carlosfandango, jaypee, Twiggy and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 13, 2021 Share Posted July 13, 2021 13 hours ago, Talbot said: The SLS on these is really simple. It is indeed a Citroenesque system, but with springs fitted too, which means the vehicle doesn't sink (too much) when it's off. The Spheres are mounted in the car, withing the triangle formed between the rear seatback and the boot-seats seatback. You'll find a screwed-down panel that removes, revealing the spheres. The rear dampers aren't really dampers, just hydraulic struts. These connect with the pipes shown to the spheres, and there's a height corrector on the rear anti-roll bar. I'm not sure where the damper drillings are, as I don't believe they're in the spheres on this.. probably in the hydraulic struts. The spheres have to be unbolted from under the car, but then are removed from within the car. The system holds only about 10%-20% of the weight of the car, the other 80%-90% being held on the springs. Consequently, the sphere charge pressure isn't actually very high.. just enough to ensure that fluid moves back and forth to the sphere as the suspension moves. Last time I checked, the spheres are still available from mercedes for fairly reasonable prices. I think I paid about £60 each for a pair, and it completely transformed the S124 I was working on. The hydraulic lines are very basic, and could either be replaced or likely repaired by someone like Pirtek hydraulics. Also, the remarkably-expensive mercedes fluid for these is in fact the same spec as LHM, which is of course a lot cheaper. Lob that in. It's a great system, which appears to be very reliable indeed. The spheres seem to last a lot longer than the equivalent Citroen ones, which I'm convinced is because they hold less weight. Cheers dude, aye it seems pretty rudimentary, I did the main front to back lines on it for the MOT. I think it's now just finding the weak spots on ths system now. I'll try and get a good look at it at the weekend and see what I can see. Also found a vid on the accumulator replacing, looks fairly straightforward and aligns with what wrote above. It's pushing its luck!! 😊 Shite Ron 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Did some more investigation tonight, couldn't get it to replicate the leak/fault, however, I do have my suspension suspicions!! (car was on ramps so suspension was loaded) Up in the air, like she just don't care. Might be a leak here None here, but Ho Lee Fark, its a bit crusty. This came off the bottom of the accumulator on the passenger side. I reckon here is the most likely place for the leak, seems to be seeping out. Oh good... Best get the parts catalogue fired up. Just as well it's pay day tomorrow. (technically today) Shite Ron, Peter C, Tickman and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter C Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 Bad news about the SLS. When my TE needed new pipes (about ten years ago), Hughes of Beaconsfield sourced replacements easily enough. Perhaps they are still available? They will post parts for a small fee. jaypee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 15, 2021 Share Posted July 15, 2021 4 hours ago, Peter C said: Bad news about the SLS. When my TE needed new pipes (about ten years ago), Hughes of Beaconsfield sourced replacements easily enough. Perhaps they are still available? They will post parts for a small fee. Thanks dude, yeah, I believe they are still free, found a couple of places on line, might try the dealer to see what prices they come back with... Peter C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Also think I have a sticky caliper or a dodgy bearing at the back driver side wheel 👍👀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaypee Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Think the wheel bearing has a little bit of play in it.... VID-20210723-WA0027.mp4 Great* 320touring, Peter C, Split_Pin and 3 others 1 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
320touring Posted July 23, 2021 Author Share Posted July 23, 2021 I think that may be slightly out of tolerance... So much so, it has as little tolerance as I Split_Pin and jaypee 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 More play than Slade's 'Merry Christmas' in December ☹️ Kringle, Supernaut, jaypee and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike60 Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 On 7/15/2021 at 7:53 AM, Peter C said: Bad news about the SLS. When my TE needed new pipes (about ten years ago), Hughes of Beaconsfield sourced replacements easily enough. Perhaps they are still available? They will post parts for a small fee. MB Newcastle post free when I've dealt with them, they list stuff on Ebay and seem quick to reply to questions that aren't about the listed item. jaypee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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