Posts by Ron B .

  • WANTED to buy,Hire or copy...

    Hi, Am looking to bbuy ,rent or copy a Mercedes M189 cylinder tool for the M189 cylinder liner installation. Tool part number is 112 589 04 6100 .

    Any help in locating one of these sets is much appreciated.

  • Type 107 SLC Headliner installation

    Hi!, I am working on a 450SLC here and i want to install a new headliner. Is there a workshop manual page which out lines how it is done ? there are a Lot of little screws and trim pieces to fit so i need to kw where they all go .

    Cheers! Ron B.

  • M189 cylinder liner and head gasket questions.

    Yesterdaythe cars owner came to see what has happened and seems to be OK with me fitting a new gasket and seeing if it will hold up. it appears from the cars service records that the head may have been removed 25 year ago but i have no idea of how many miles it may have covered in that time... Fingers crossed...

  • M189 cylinder liner and head gasket questions.

    The only way to repair it here would be to replace the liner. Yes ,the m189 is an alloy block engine ,with pressed in Liners. I have a contact here in Australia who has two sets of new liners but the problem is ,I don't have the liner fitting tool or access to a oven to heat it up to 150 C so the new liners can be fitted. It's up to the owner now to decide how much his budget can be stretched ..I rebuilt another years ago and the cost was $25,000 .


    Trompka, I also have a 928 V8 engine here which was damaged after sitting for many yeas and started without attention to the bores (pour oil down the spark plug holes and let it soak for a couple of days...) .luckily i found another locally and rebuilt it which was cheaper than restoring the damaged unit.

  • M189 cylinder liner and head gasket questions.

    Now more mechanical horrors have raised their ugly heads. The area which had the large black burn mark in the gasket is most worrying . the liner on # 4 appears to .50 lower in that area .Possibly burnt away in the past from another gasket leak. The feeler gauge under the Straight edge is where the low spot is.

    The other problems are the head bolt inserts into the alloy block. Two were not screwed in properly and sit proud of the block surface instead of below the surface. There are supposed to be self tapping and a special tool is used to screw them in . i doubt over sized ones are still available so... I might have to make a tool and use loctite to hold them n place. Assuming the threads are OK. With the head sitting so high above the block, I am surprised it hadn't blown out years ago. And thankfully it's not warped.



  • M189 cylinder liner and head gasket questions.

    Quote from Wuff_6.3

    interesting... mine is #1444 from February 69. Wonder how your later model hit Australian soil so quickly, even before mine in Germany? :)

    Australia was once populated with wealthy people. We got 250 approximately, 6.3's. All the rare ones ,in RHD. I have another here for some major work, which was imported by a local tire magnate to Race in the Annual Bathurst car race but because it didn't meet one of the rules regarding homologation it was ineligible to race. The owner wants me to pull the heads and replace the valve guides so I am going to check which cams it has. It has more raw power than any other 6.3 I have ever driven . Last year I finished a partial restoration on 6.3 #702 and I know a guy who parted out #201 😥 That one had the same intakes as a W100 . So we got them here as soon as they were released for sale.

  • M189 cylinder liner and head gasket questions.

    Tom ,I have 6.3 also, jan .1969 #1574 .

    So,the machinist had my head done before lunch time but had to remove .9 which is .1 over the limit. looking at what information I have to hand I have to check the adjusting screws on the intake tappets to allow for clearance .

    When doing a 300SL engine some time back ,we found the same problem, where the engine would run perfectly oK while cold but under load would start making a rattle sound .When the head is machined ,as far I can understand it, the cam timing is altered slightly allowing the lobe to connect with the tappet adjustment screw...some how.

    Anyone got any ideas about this? The head looks nice even though they couldn't get all of the marks out on # 6 combustion area. The exhaust valves show the results of leaving a car standing for 10 years...


  • M189 cylinder liner and head gasket questions.

    Ha ha , Ok thanks for that:thumbup:. I am going to get it machined this morning and ensure it's actually parallel .I have lots of manuals but very little for the m189 ,only a few pages in the August 1959 book. I suspect the head has been off before as the gasket doesn't look old. I will know more once my friendly machinist looks at the head closer. :cool:

  • M189 cylinder liner and head gasket questions.

    I am working on a 1965 W112 Coupe. The Car was missing on #3& #4 and a leakdown test indicated a leak between the two .

    I removed the head and found the gasket blown in several places.


    The cylinder head and the cylinder block Appear to have "fret " marks on the surface as if the head was moving. How should I determine if the cylinder liners may have been moving?

  • 123 ignition for M110.

    What we are trying to do is rectify a problem we have with poor quality fuel and an engine which was rebuilt with a shaved block deck, shaved cylinder head and far too much compression . We need to reduce the preignition and the standard distributor cannot be modified to regraph the distributors advance map. Also,trigger points are horrendously expensive here so any way to remove the wear factor of them is welcomed.

    We tried a 1223 distributor this morning but the only one they sell fits the earlier single cam enginesm127,129,130 etc. And is shorter with a different drive .A tang drive instead of the m110's helical gear.

    In the mean time we have a spare engine from a R107 280SL so we are using it's 004 distributor instead of the 002 unit the car came with. It feels significantly better now but still pings at the upper rev range under hard acceleration. :)

  • 123 ignition for M110.

    Hi! Does anyone know of the person who can convert a m110 distributor (for Djet) to a electronic 123 ignition? I have heard a rumour such a person maybe in the Nederland's but i cant find any information regarding this. Cheers! :cool:

  • Mercedes Kofferraumkreutz Kreutzspindel Seitenteile fixieren - 201589002700

    Hi From Australia. i am needing one of these alignment tools or even the dimensions of one so I can make one. I do a few W111-123 cars and often need to replace rear sections. if anyone can help me ,it would be much appreciated!!:) The pic is one from ebay but the sellerv only wants to ship to EU ountries and i cannot contact him via the ebay enquiry device.


    Cheers! Ron Bunting.

  • Moderne Klimanalage in W 111 er Coupe

    G'day Thomas! Ron" Mercmad" here. I was searching on line for a retro styled air con for a 220SE cabrio a customer has .The car is in very nice original condition so the owner need something that can be hidden .

    I like your idea of using the W108 (?) fan and ducts .

    but this is what I found a a couple of years ago but cannot find the link again .I am sure the guy making these is in Germany. Have you ever seen them ?


    Cheers! Ron B.

  • Moderne Klimanalage in W 111 er Coupe