I need to get a hand to take off the hard top from the SL600 then try
the soft top and see if it works. I never have. I'm guessing there are
cylinders leaking as I found an o-ring kit in the trunk when I got the
car. There might be a bad switch or two as well, the light is always
blinking like it is not happy about things being latched down, but the
hard top is tight. The hard top needs a new liner too, it is sagging.
It has that sorta light gray on it now, I'm wondering if replacing that
or doing black to match the interior. I saved your tutorial on that
job, I should probably get it done when I get the top off.
The new water pump finally came Saturday, i was going to put it on
yesterday but got mired down in changing driver window regulator on the
girlchild's 124. About like doing a 123, which is to say it would not
be too hard if the cheepchineechit regulator I bought did not have the
bolts about 2mm too far apart to fit in the door holes. A bigger hole
drilled out solved that problem after about an hour of cussing it. The
old regulator didn't look bad, not sure why it was not putting the
window all the way up. Anyway the new one works OK so that is good. I
had to drill out the rivets on the speaker frame, have to hit the
hardware store to buy some small short bolts to put it back in then can
get it buttoned up. It also needs new front brakes so that is on the
list to do. It is a pretty nice car for a 95, I guess I will fix the
brakes and try to sell it.
--FT
On 5/3/21 11:06 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Speaking of convertibles, I took the hard top off Mrs. Dan’s SL500 this
weekend.Put the soft top up and let it sit in the sun for a day, then folded it
back up for another 6 months/year of non-use.
Also took the opportunity to remove the headliner from the hard top so I can
have it recovered by my headliner guy..
-D
On May 3, 2021, at 10:49 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
Most fun topless cruising I ever had was in that cheap-cheap-cheap 380SL I had
for
awhile. Never worried about that car. Caught in a rainstorm? Meh! It was
all about
the low price. The game on that car was to not spend too much, while fixing it
up a bit.
(It got parted out a few owners after me, I saw it in my mechanic's yard a few
years
after I sold it.)
If the canvas is bad enough, just glue patches on it.
-- Jim
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