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Quick Jack 5000 BL-5000SLX Box Opening and Testing with R129 SL600

Taking on the SL600 required some tools. The first being a lift that quickly and safely lifts the whole car so I can work under it without having to jack up my life insurance rates. The SL600 is a special … Continue reading

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R129 SL600 Bumper Problems

We acquired the Mercedes with the following bumper problem: I wasn’t going to drive it until I got a new bumper but came up with this quick fix using zip ties:   This will last another year so we can … Continue reading

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R129 SL600 Main Engine Harness Removal: More High Resolution Pictures

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R129 SL600 Main Engine Harness Damage Pictures

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SGI Silicon Graphics O2 R10000 270MHz

An O2 I got cheap, restored and sold to pay for my Onyx2:

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Removing Top Main Engine Harness on R129 SL600 V-12

Most Mercedes from the early ’90s employed soy based biodegradable wire insulation. It seems to hold up well around the car with the exception of the engine bay, likely due to the heat. My ’94 SL600 is of the afflicted. … Continue reading

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Replacing the Front ADS Accumulators on the Mercedes Benz SL600 R129

This post is to expand a bit on MB SL600 7,2 Väth’s excellent DIY on this topic. Remove the four nuts in green first. The right one is to give the hydraulic pipes play to get the accumulator out. With … Continue reading

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Mercedes Benz R129 SL600 Engine Red Line

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1994 R129 SL600 Project

Picked this rig up from my dad for a fair price considering its challenges. If it were any other car it’d be scrapped, but this is a Mercedes Benz V-12 convertible roadster with 400 HP and 400 lb/ft torque. I … Continue reading

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Installing PHP 5.6.14 with phpbrew and homebrew on OS X El Capitan.

Running: phpbrew install 5.6.14 +default +mcrypt +fpm …first results in the compilation error: checking for pkg-config… /usr/local/bin/pkg-config configure: error: Cannot find OpenSSL’s …overcoming that leaves you with the link error: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: “_PKCS5_PBKDF2_HMAC”, referenced from: _zif_openssl_pbkdf2 in … Continue reading

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