[W126 Coupe] Spares in the Boot

[Egill Gudmundsson]

When you guys start talking about belts i remember my '84 500sec blew belts off every other month and i never could figure out why it did that..

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Egill Gudmundsson
'91 560 SEC Oklahoma

On 12.6.2011, at 19:00, "alal30319 at gmail.com" <alal30319 at gmail.com> wrote:


> Belts are fairly common because it's size the and not the car that matters. I was in a similar situation when lost the power steering belt on a 1975 Mercedes Benz 280S that I was helping a fried drive back to Atlanta.

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> The nearest advance auto parts had our belt and we made it home without any further problems.

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> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Richard K. Hallberg <rkhallberg at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Gerry, et. al.,

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> Gerry, you must be paying the preacher well - you were able to make it to a place where the belt was available.  In the early 70's (before cellphones) when I was a salesman traveling by car, I lost a water pump belt about 7pm on a lonely stretch of interstate kinda near Sweetwater, TN - halfway between Knoxville and Chattanooga.   The guy at the service station called an autoparts guy at home and had him deliver the belt for my late-model Ford - saved my bacon, but I might not have been so lucky in those days with a Benz.  My daddy, a parts man who couldn't fix anything, thought it was prudent to have a spare set of belts and radiator hoses in the trunk for emergency repairs by someone else.

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>  Of course, I had no need to listen to his advice until my Sweetwater encounter.  Since then, even with a cell phone, I travel with belts, radiator hoses and a few extra aircraft (geared) hose clamps to patch other hose leaks, along with a small selection of tools - I also carry a roll of duct tape, just in case.

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> Sounds like you guys had a nice road-trip GTG.  I'm glad your story had a happy ending and sending you Many Thanks for your detailed repair threads - I rest much easier with this information available.

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> Richard

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