Guys
So I have spent most evenings and weekend and a fair few hundreds of GBP lovingly restoring my 2000 230K SLK.
The list is endless that has been replaced for new or at the very least refurbed. So I got the car for pennies due to a clogged trans box filter. That sorted (new filter and trans fluid) I enjoyed the summer with wind on my scalp as I replaced part after part and the car started to show me how it could dive.
Then the gearbox went again. Loud whine, no power to the wheels and so on. One thing I noticed at the time was steam coming from the underside of the car. Quick check of coolant level which was just topped up and it had fallen. Left it in idle for a while then a while later the whine went down and drive came back.
So assumption is rad core had blown and coolent was getting into trans fluid, so new rad ordered. On taking out the old rad, the lower support bracket was rusted so bad that a finger could be poked through with ease. Maybe the cause of the rad failure. Rad moving around too much. Anyway back to point of this thread (btw the waffle has info some may find useful so no flames please).
I removed the front bumper and inner wings to find the front wings/fenders were rotten at the bracket. I searched the epc, this forum, the net and found lots of people asking what the part number is but no replies. So attached is the photo of the part I need. It's the L shaped which welded to chassis and bolted to wing.
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9796/vvfi.jpg
If anyone knows if this or definitely not available then please let me know. Otherwise I will fabricate one. Thanks
So I have spent most evenings and weekend and a fair few hundreds of GBP lovingly restoring my 2000 230K SLK.
The list is endless that has been replaced for new or at the very least refurbed. So I got the car for pennies due to a clogged trans box filter. That sorted (new filter and trans fluid) I enjoyed the summer with wind on my scalp as I replaced part after part and the car started to show me how it could dive.
Then the gearbox went again. Loud whine, no power to the wheels and so on. One thing I noticed at the time was steam coming from the underside of the car. Quick check of coolant level which was just topped up and it had fallen. Left it in idle for a while then a while later the whine went down and drive came back.
So assumption is rad core had blown and coolent was getting into trans fluid, so new rad ordered. On taking out the old rad, the lower support bracket was rusted so bad that a finger could be poked through with ease. Maybe the cause of the rad failure. Rad moving around too much. Anyway back to point of this thread (btw the waffle has info some may find useful so no flames please).
I removed the front bumper and inner wings to find the front wings/fenders were rotten at the bracket. I searched the epc, this forum, the net and found lots of people asking what the part number is but no replies. So attached is the photo of the part I need. It's the L shaped which welded to chassis and bolted to wing.
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/9796/vvfi.jpg
If anyone knows if this or definitely not available then please let me know. Otherwise I will fabricate one. Thanks