A little after work project, OEM Sport AMG style pedals.

Once again I found myself trolling on Pelicanparts.com and found a deal on AMG/Sport Pedals. So after ordering them, they show up today and I must install them tonight!

So here is what the old looked like, the default 16 year old black pedals.

Here are some instructions for installing them.

Parking Brake pedal:

This is the easiest of them all. Simply pull the old rubber from one corner and put the new on starting from the upper left corner then to the upper right corner then down to the bottom left>right corner.

Accelerator pedal:

1, Undo the two plastic 10 mm screw caps behind your gas pedal, pull out the pedal mounting pin from the right to left and remove the old pedal.
2. Attach the new pedal back to the floor of the car with the two 10 mm screw caps that you removed in step 1.
3. Line up the the upper mounting pin by finding as I did that it takes some paience to mount this pin.

Brake pedal:

Take off the old pedal cover and put on the new one. The main brake pedal is a little difficult, use a little silicon spray because the rubber is sorta hard, so you may need a tool like a flat head screwdriver to pull the rubber sleeve over the pedal. Start at the top upper left corner then to the upper right. Finally the lower left corner, drawing to the lower right corner over the pedal.

And after 20 minutes, here is the finished product:

Till next time.....happy R129 / SL500 motoring!

--Jerry

New Power Antenna and Dash lights

In prep for a little road trip, I finally replaced the rubber temporary antenna.

The original broke off in a car wash --so common with these. The mast was broken and the motor fried. So I ordered a used Hershman power antenna off Ebay and it arrived yesterday.

So here is the "new" power antenna. Came off a "99 model. Love these cars as the series spans 11 years and the parts are interchangeable.

Now the fun begins, had to rip the trunk apart and remove the old antenna.

And here is the finished product!

Much better than this!

And since I was in a Mr. Handyman mood, I replaced all the lights on the dash cluster as 1 burned out --so I replaced all of them, so all gauges would be at the same brightness. I know....

What a cool looking dash, if I say so myself...