Finally after days of humidity and ducking the storm damage i have the 280SE engine up and running. it just needs a bit of tuning to the fuel injection and few runs to settle it in and it’s ready to get installed in it’s new home .

It doesn’t take long to reassemle an engine if everything is there and ready to go ,and everything was going well until the Storm arrived last thursday and really blew things about .I lost the roof on the rear of the building and the stack off the spray booth ,So no painting until that is fixed…in the future.

A customer bought this recently with the knowledge there was a engine vibration.

Supposedly the engine was an automatic engine (bolted originally to a DB automatic) from a W108 250S. This was supposed to have been causing the vibration as result of a mis match of parts. I removed the engine to find a lot more than just an unbalanced flywheel …

The spigot bearing cover shows damage from some clown forcing the trans into place

theres also two different size bolt heads and that peg is so long that it was fouling the back of the block .

The timing chain was so worn it was loose to point where i could lift it over the sprocket.

The crank bearings were destroyed,two of the bearing sets are welded to the crank and the bearing bores are flogged out,destroying the block. .

The prwevious owner had spent $17,000 on the body work and allegedly spent $4000 on the engine…hmmmm i wonder where?

A customer contawced me recently with a tale of woe. His 280S trans had failed completely so he bought a 1969 280SE,unfortunately it was built before the 5th month 1969 and has the DB automatic instead of the later 722 trans.b So… the blue car was found in a Wrecking yard and purchased as a parts… and as is usual with these things it had a lot more good points (apart from a lot of rust ) than bad points so the descision has been made to fix the blue car with parts from the grey/silver car . The latter will be broken for parts and it has a good 250S engine with a SL cam,giving it a lot more useful horsepower over stock.

Yestyerday I sent one of the dead 450’s off to it’s new home….

BYEEEEEEE!

The interior of this 928 is pretty good for a 32 year old motor vehicle, Mainly because the seats were fitted with sheepskins which helped to protect the leather from Australia’s Harsh sunlight.

unfortunately the sheepskins also kept moisture in while the car was stored from 2004 until resurrected in 2014. lots of mould was present .This was cleaned off with vinegar on a cloth .

The leather was hard and has a few character lines… I have used Dubbin to feed the leather and coming days will see if it softens up.

Crazy Colours are the result from Light coming from the mercury vapour lamps in the roof.

Next Project will be to polish the paint and see how it comes up.

This’s a nice 450SL which had headlight wash wipe when new. Someone had removed most of the parts but the two 107’s I’m wrecking at the moment are yielding plenty of bits . one or two small jobs have to be done to it so it can be used as a display car in the Mercedes Club Concours on the 14/8/14 ,to be held at ormiston house. ormiston house in Queensland.

450SL with DJet engine