Practically Classics Forum

Given we had obvious signs of poor lubrication on the camshaft that at least verifying that we had clear holes in the spray bar made sense. Especially as I had a spare present on the spare head, so simple to clean that up and just do a swap. Here's it having just been removed - it has four pretty sm...

What do you need to do to pull the rocker cover on a W123 with this engine? 1. Remove air cleaner housing (4 10mm nuts and pop two PCV hoses off). 2. Remove HT leads from the little plastic channel they sit in. 3. Detach the throttle cable at the engine end (little ball and socket setup, just pops o...

Couple of things done today...first of which you likely won't be able to see on camera - cleaning the inside and outside of the windscreen. It's nice being able to see where I'm going now. Inside was particularly bad with a really thick, greasy coating on it. https://i.ibb.co/Jcm60Sj/IMG-20210725-17...

I have happy memories of the bx (a former girlfriend had a couple) what's happening with yours?? Very little - which is one of the main things which provided a bit of a metaphorical kick in the backside to prompt me to do the bit of fleet rationalisation. Hoping over the next couple of months this ...

Rocker cover gasket arrived this morning so should be able to look at getting the valve clearances set and the top end at least something resembling oil tight soon. Then will get an oil and filter change done. I'm looking forward to that as I'd really like it to stop sounding like an 80s 1.1 Fiesta....

Out and about again today. Stopped in one of the local car parks and grabbed a couple of photos. https://i.ibb.co/qmbpFp1/IMG-20210722-152242.jpg https://i.ibb.co/8bm671H/IMG-20210722-152235.jpg These cars really do have quite some road presence. Can't really think of many things which compete in th...

For your plates, could you get some made by your local main dealer? You'll be spending some time with them in the future.. can you get the radiator re cored? Ive had a few done and have always been happy with the results.. The dealer could probably provide plates, but would obviously still be in th...

Had a proper nose around in the engine bay today for the first time since I picked the Merc up, when a very basic check of "does it have oil and water in?" was done. Immediate thing which just leaps out at me is how much room there is around the engine on all sides. https://i.ibb.co/cQdNV3Z/IMG-2021...

Just as a bit of background to the "thermal incident" during the trip home, this is the highest the temperature gauge ever seems to get to, in stop/start town traffic today with 30C ambient temperatures. https://i.ibb.co/cwnmkmV/IMG-20210720-155901.jpg It gets that far, then drops back down to just ...

:thumbs: I nearly bought one of those, a lad had to buy it after he ran into the back of it while a bit drunk ( accident on large private property) tailgate was stoved in but it looked fixable.. I imagine that whatever went into the back of the Merc looked worse! -- -- -- Little very mild tinkering...