The OM617 had been sitting on the hoist, blocking my garage door for the past week. I had tried to use a garbage harbour fright dolly, but it just shattered when the engine was lowered on to it.
I made my own out of a few scrap 2x14 and some 2x6. HF got the trashed dolly and I got some spare cash out of it. I purchased their 5.25" casters for my wheels. Once all bolted up, I rolled the thing under the now raised motor and learned it would slide just over the legs! Dropped it down and pulled the dolly away. That was totally cool. I pulled the SL out of the garage and grunted enough to get the dolly, with motor, tucked against the wall with enough room to pull a car in alongside. I am happy. The local show and shine was yesterday. I took Polei, but garnered no awards. The fellow I sold a Hirschmann to a few weeks back did win the B class (1980-1999) second place. I got him to sign up when I helped him install the antenna, which gave him two weeks to make his 560SEL into a very lovely example of the Marque. Photos of Polei will be posted to BW. clay _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
