What have you done to your wagon lately? (Let's keep the thread going!)

Hopefully we'll have decent enough weather so I can finish before May and be able to get back out on the road by the time the travel restrictions lift.

 

Got my seats and headliner!!

 

Wow Paladin, those seats look great!

 

Thanks, I'm real happy with them. I F'd up and tried to delete a picture from the ones I had in the "Garage" to add these and deleted the whole album by mistake. Crap!

 

I put new carpet in my 91 OCC.

 

Day 3:
Turned out to be another nice day so I got the windshield frame smoothed and a couple coats of primer on both sides, if it's nice again tomorrow I'll get the wet sanding done and see if I can't get a few coats of colour on it.
A couple nice things about the repaired area, it's small and bordered by the fender, hood and a center panel so just a mask off and no blending, I just have to get the tint right but that's not hard. Also I only need to break out my detail gun to do the paint.
On to pics

On the inside I didn't worry about grinding the welds to much since it'll be hidden but there won't be any more leakage.

Ignore the run it'll be sanded and prime a couple more times before paint.
That was it for today's work on the wagon but I did replace the drivers interior door handle on the 81 300 SD, it's nice that these are still available new from Mercedes.

 

Love to see folks getting projects done on their wagons.

 

Well I stripped out the interior and this is the spare tire/3rd row seat area after I pulled out the sheet metal that has machine screwed in. I'm hoping the spare tire pan my the scrap 66 Charger I have will work.

 

Had a bit of damp weather but I finally got the windshield frame done and some paint on. Next up, putting it all back together.

 

I just finished replacing the stock 3.23 rear on my 91 OCC with a 3.42. I built the axle with Moser axles, Truetrac differential, and premium Richmond gears. It runs quiet, and makes the tires spin a little more than the 3.23. I must put a 2 tooth larger driven gear on the VSS to calm down the speedo. I need to write down the mileage for the break-in oil change. Pinion shim is 0.038", and I have .010" lash. This is my first rear rebuild, and all the mystery is BS.

I also replaced the steering intermediate shaft with a home made unit using a couple of inexpensive stainless universals I found on ebay (look exactly like the Borgeson units), and a couple of OEM shafts dissected, and reassembled to fit. It managed to slip a couple of splines while installing, but that is easy to fix. It really cleaned up my engine compartment by removing a lot of heat shielding on the heat vulnerable rubber parts of the OEM unit.

 

Pics of my intermediate shaft installed. Silver tape is heat resistant:

 

My son and I just finished putting cat back dual exhaust on my 78 country squire. M
ade it up from 2 kits2 1/4 What a pain around the trailer hitch.

 

Nice. Did you take any photos during the process? Have you taken it out on the road to test out how it performs now? I bet it sounds good too.

 

Really does not sound much different. The other exhaust had 12 holes in it. Maybe a little deeper but not loud. No noticeable difference in power but I like the look.

 

I acquired 4 old wooden block stands that my late neighbor used to prop cars up for years. The Wagon is now propped on all 4 stands, and there are jack stands under the car, too.

Now I have to get over straining my lower back. I moved the rear end of the car a few feet, since it had moved over too far. Give me credit, I didn't think I'm the Hulk (I'm kidding; ) I just put the rear wheels on rollers before I attempted to move it. Still, I didn't expect to strain myself that bad.