[W126 Coupe] parts list

[Gerry Van Zandt]

Hi Kent,

I'm just now back from the Fatherland with a boat-load of 126 parts (including a nice set of original factory tri-y M117 headers ... about as rare as rocking-horse poop to find ... and I got them FREE of charge) and can now get the list you requested.  It's available at this URL as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10675111/SEC%20rebuild%20parts.xlsx

If you're interested in more in-depth documentation of my project, along with plenty of blow-by-blow as I accomplished the job, you can find it on the C126 sub-board of my 500E web site at this link:

http://www.500espot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=626

Unfortunately you have to register for the site to see the photographs, but if you care to spend a couple of minutes doing so it is probably worth it if you are doing this job.

I found the factory service manuals (don't know if you guys all knew that MB has made them available for free now here:  http://www.startekinfo.com/StarTek/outside/12253/?requestedDocId=12253 ) extremely valuable but most valuable was the write-up that list member Chet Hwilka did on is own 560SEC top-end rebuild.  

Chet's guide was like the "North Star" guiding light to my process, taking me through it at the highest level, and the factory service manuals were more or less the actual maps that got me where I needed to go.

http://home.comcast.net/~chwilka/cylinder_head_removal_and_replac.htm

Hope this all helps.

Cheers,
Gerry







On Jul 1, 2011, at 9:49 AM, mbcoupes-request at mbcoupes.com wrote:


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> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:30:06 +0200

> From: "Kent Kihl" <kent at macumba.co.za>

> Subject: [W126 Coupe] parts list

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> Guys

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> You are fantastic, the knowledge you all have about the SEC's are

> unbelievable. The MB workshop's in this part of the world (Cape Town)

> doesn't have a clue. Actually the MB dealer here are the best reasons why

> never to buy a MB.

> 

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> 

> Kent

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> Cape Town

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> 560 SEC 1989

> S320 2005


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