[W126 Coupe] MBCOUPES Digest, Vol 70, Issue 17
JONATHAN REYES
jojonrey at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 21:07:03 EDT 2010
i have an
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> 1. 560SEC Speaker Grille (John Howard)
> 2. UPDATE: 560SEC top-end rebuild (Gerry Van Zandt)
> 3. Anyone have a nice set of 560sec seats? (alal30319 at gmail.com)
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> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:29:03 -0400
> From: "John Howard" <howardjnl at comcast.net>
> Subject: [W126 Coupe] 560SEC Speaker Grille
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> Folks,
> Anyone have a lead on where to obtain a driver's door speaker grille
> for a 1991 560SEC?
> John
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> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:51:06 -0500
> From: Gerry Van Zandt <gerryvz at me.com>
> Subject: [W126 Coupe] UPDATE: 560SEC top-end rebuild
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> Hello all,
>
> My 1989 560SEC top-end rebuild has been progressing, and is probably now
> 80+% complete.
>
> Everything has gone pretty well with only a couple of minor snags on the
> process. I started the project on February 28th, so about 6 weeks ago. I am
> about one week behind my own self-imposed schedule and this is mainly due to
> a week of business travel, waiting for a large shipment of replacement parts
> to arrive, and a few extra days that it took to get the intake manifold
> coating completed.
>
> You can see the photo album at the link below. This is a full set of photos
> from before I started the job up until last (Sunday) night.
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> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=167571&id=821723571&l=946f984ee3
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> I had the bottom half of the intake manifold ceramic coated to repel heat,
> the bottom side of the top-half of the intake manifold coated with same, and
> the top-side of the intake manifold coated with a Teflon coating to make
> cleanup easy and also to repel heat. The exhaust manifolds were ceramic
> coated to keep temps down. I had a local outfit here in the Houston area
> called Poly-Dyn do this work -- they are nationally known and are friendly
> competitors with Swain Tech, another coating company whom some of you may
> have heard of.
>
> I've pretty much replaced every bit of rubber under the hood, including all
> intake and engine-related hoses, vacuum lines, motor mounts, fuel lines
> (including the two lines going to and from the fuel cooler), and so forth.
> Most of the rubber is very cheap, and it's ALL worth replacing.
>
> The motor has gone back together nicely. Basically all that remains is to
> put the intake manifold back together and install it, plumb everything with
> new vacuum lines, replace the coil and fuel pump relays, assemble the
> throttle/throttle body/cruise control linkage, re-attach a few coolant
> hoses, change the oil and re-add the drained coolant, turn the motor over to
> prime it, and do a few other final assembly tasks, and I'm good to go.
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> Enjoy!
>
> Cheers,
> Gerry
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> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:07:34 -0500
> From: "alal30319 at gmail.com" <alal30319 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [W126 Coupe] Anyone have a nice set of 560sec seats?
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> I'm not sure if I posted here already but i'm looking for a good set of
> seats for my 560SEC in gray leather.
> Mike was kind enough to hook me up with a set that went into my US 560 but
> now i need a set for the Euro car that has had 'custom' interior installed
> at one point of it's life.
>
> Please get in touch in you can help.
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