Thread: Did a little dismanteling on the benz

Tweet

As most of you know, I have a '83 240D that I was going to put a 350 in but decided it was too much work, bought my chevy and still had plans to put a V6 in it but, when I looked under the car in late summer, the unibody was starting to " U ", so I bought the Falcon, my dad bought that benz for parts for his '83 and all he needed was the head, he was going to strip the car but I saved the car by telling him I wanted it, now that the car is mine and I'm told I have to get rid of it ( I don't need 3 cars anyway ), I get to tear it apart. I have the dash mostly dissassembled, grille, headlights and buckets, trim bezels and today I removed the front 1/4's and inner fenders, I was able to open the doors just right so I could get my 10 mil socket w/ 6" extension in there to pull the 3 bolts behind the door so, I was able to leave the doors on. It took me 1 hour to figure out how to get the passenger side compleatly off, I had all the bolts out but the 1/4's goes all the way into the front of the car and is screwed in 2 places with a special crimp into a center panal also ( must have taken a special tool but, a hammer and screwdriver worked for me ), 1ce off, it came right out, the second 1/4 took 10 mins because I knew where it was all fastened. Maby, after the falcon's road legal, we can pull out the motor and tranny for parts like starter, alternator and other such items.

Sounds sweet Matt. I thought the Falcon was already road legal but guess I was wrong. What do you need to have done to it to get it road legal?

Originally posted by FMXhellraiser
Sounds sweet Matt. I thought the Falcon was already road legal but guess I was wrong. What do you need to have done to it to get it road legal?

Just finish the brakes, I bought it needing a master cyl, replaced that but ran into problems when we were bleeding out the system, bleeder shot out of the rear driver side when we were bleeding the front driver side, no big deal, just have to replace the wheel cyl but, getting the drum off is hard as it sat for a long time and we'v never had to work on a drum brake setup like this and it dosen't help that we don't have a book, Iv been getting help on this site though.