What have you done to your Pagoda today?

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Took her to the Bothwell, Ontario car show today. It was a nice sunny day, not to hot not to cold, perfect top down driving weather. Over 1,000 cars at the show. Some lucky fellow won the 50/50 price it was over $17,000- as I said lucky fellow.

[Valvechatter]

Rolf,
What chrome cleaner/ polish did you use?

Lin

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Lin, I use Zaino Show Car Products ----> http://www.carpolish.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145:snow-white-a-blonde-towels&catid=34:products&Itemid=56

My chrome is fairly new looking (car was well looked after since partial restoration in 1992 and always stored in a heated and air conditioned environment). For chrome cleaning I use "Mothers Chrome Polish"

Hope this helps.

[cbenz1]

Had a welding shop locally recreate the anchors for the soft top springs. Guy did a great job.  PM me if you are in NJ and need similar work.  Does anyone know if I really need the smaller springs too?  Is it worth the extra $70 or will it work fine as is?

[Flyair]

Just bought a set of new chrome pieces: door and door step rails for both sides. I am now waiting for adequate screws from SLS to have them installed and shine.

Moreover, I have also received fixing pieces for side windows, so I hope that soon there will be less noise while passing on bumpers

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Went to "Paint and Collision Supplies"  here in little London town today Gord the owner mixes me a little bottle of touch up paint with tender loving care to match my original colour code 903 H The procedure took over 2 hours in the end it turned out a perfect match.

I learned the best way to apply the paint touch up is with a soft match, from a match book (don't use a brush it would leave streaks). For vertical touch up points cut a 45 degree angle with an sharp knife at the end and for horizontal touch up points use the end of the match as it is. If you like to make a brush from the match end just rub it in the palm of your hand and it becomes a soft brush leaving no streaks.

My car needs touch up on the removable hard top anchor / lock points (previous owner was not too careful installing the hardtop and scratched the paint).

[Peter van Es]

Moreover, I have also received fixing pieces for side windows, so I hope that soon there will be less noise while passing on bumpers

Drank some Polish buffalo grass vodka supplied by Flyair and felt happy...

Peter

[Peter van Es]

Oops... This is about what you did to your car today, not about what you did to you today. Well, thanks anyway Flyair... I enjoyed it very much...

[Garry]

Put the Pagoda into my mechanic to get the rear oil seal fixed, still leaking after several tries to fix.  Whilst there I have noticed a bit of rust on the front cross member so having that looked at and cut out as needed. 

[cbenz1]

Oil seal - I have same issue.  What is he charging you

Chuck

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Had both the rear shock observers changed ... feels like a new car now ... ready to take the trip to Williamsburg, Virginia

Need the front shocks now (not that urgent) also the control arm bushings .... guess after 44 years the rubber bushings have done there deed.

[Flyair]

Oops... This is about what you did to your car today, not about what you did to you today. Well, thanks anyway Flyair... I enjoyed it very much...

Peter,
take it as if you performed the internal cleaning and preservation servicing of your Pagoda main driver 

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Washed her today along with my daily driver ... both look super now The little blue tornado (name I gave her) takes less time to clean then my Bimmer.

[Peter van Es]

Peter,
take it as if you performed the internal cleaning and preservation servicing of your Pagoda main driver 

Yup, I've been doing that regularly over the last two weeks or so. Now running low on buffalo grass cleaning agent...

[Flyair]

Yup, I've been doing that regularly over the last two weeks or so. Now running low on buffalo grass cleaning agent...

Peter
make sure you add some ZDDP additive

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Custom fitted my TomTom today. Made a special rear bracket for it and it fits nicely into the ashtray opening. Interchanging from TomTom with bracket back to the ashtray takes no more then a minute. Now my TomTom has a spot were it no longer can wander all over the place

Disassembled my old odometer today removed the 2 light bulbs ... next project will be changing the main bulb on the odometer in the car (Tech Manual has a nice write up to guide me wit this project).

Prepared my Becker Euro Stereo Radio for installation ... next project will be to install it and remove the Sony Tape Deck radio.

[Valvechatter]

Rolf-Dieter,
Where did you find your radio? eBay?

Lin

[Benz Dr.]

Did the front crank seal and brake booster replacement on George's car. Once we get the new master cylinder it's back to the upholstery shop for some final touches.
Started on the car that came in from Winnipeg. Long haul to get it here - maybe 1,500 miles. So far I haven't found too much wrong with it and all of the usual stuff looks OK or has already been done. For this reason I expect something unusual to fix. 


Have a number of things to look at on my own car before we head south for P-50. Oil change, grease, clean car, top up fluids, set valves and check everything out. Car has been bullet proof for years and sure wouldn't want to have problems so far away from home. After 20 years it's returning back to the area where it once lived. 

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Lin,

My car came with the Becker Euro Stereo Radio in a box, the previous owner had it removed and installed a Sony tape deck radio ... I made sure I have all the bids and pieces, so next project is to install it before heading south to P-50 in Williamsburg, VA.

Don,

Make sure you pack some Metric Tools .... just in case and keep your eye on the rear view mirror so you won't leave me behind knowing you drive much faster then I do.

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

Installed the Becker Europa original Stock Radio today ... the Sony Tape Type tat was in the car went into the Garbage

Getting her ready for the trip down to Virginia USA.


EDIT ---> Purchased a set of Scepter Pro Ramps to gain easy access below my car in my garage. Used them to install a missing bracket to alow safe distance of a water hose from a rotating pulley. Gave me some grief however in the end I wan the battle. The Scepter Pro Ramps were on sale for $39- and are good to support weight up to 12,000 lbs / 5.500 kg per pair. Made from plastic and easy to store in the garage. Just what I needed.

[pj]

I opened up the rear-view mirror again. First did this on 2011-08-29, so at least I knew what to expect. But I still don't have the nerve to "snap" the mirror stem out of its holder under the inside top of the windshield.

Cleaned the 2 interior glass surfaces, then got ambitious and hit the chrome surround piece with polish. Considerable improvement, but still not perfect. I noticed that there is a gasket around the glass, and my gasket is major cracked even though it's not disintegrated. Is this gasket NLA, or can it be replaced?

Putting it back together went well, taking great care to get the little wire holder in properly at the bottom where the black plastic tab swings the mirror for night use.

It being a beautiful day in southern Ontario, then went for a drive. First went past Rolf-Dieter's house to see if we could catch him flat on his back under the Blue Tornado, but there was no sign of him. So we drove down to Port Stanley, which is a quaint little inland harbour and tourist spot, and visited a friend -- who admired our Pagoda, just as we hoped. A fine day.

[Rolf-Dieter ✝︎]

You past my house too late Peter ... I was in the shower ... should have stopped I would have joined you of the drive with our Golden Retriever as my navigator. Richard to;d me this evening as as we enjoyed a glass of red that a white Pagoda passed along our street, I had a hunch it might have been you.

Next time stop by for a cup of tea!

[pdc]

done a lot last 2 days

Check it out here :

http://www.sl113.org/forums/index.php?topic=19177.0


Pascal

[garymand]

I've got the dash apart, all the instruments out, wood out, windshield in.  I need to repace the M-tex.  Its a 250SL.  How do I go about this? I've got raw material.  I just don't know where to begin to find the screws and safely strip off the old ... and then what?

[sfanale]

I drained the tranny and rear differential with the help of Jon and Barry (from this forum) then replaced with fresh.  The "lubricant" that came out was pretty worn and dark brown so it was well over due!