[R129 SL] My story : SL280 Softtop

[Jan Kuylaars]

Hai, Anil
I am glad to read that you fixed the top.
For the blinking lights you first must control with the manual tool if
all the slots in front and trunk are good clesed so that the switch is
activated.
If one switch makes no contact, the light wil be armed en a beep will
sound
 
If not, you got my drawings and i will think about it
 
Gretings from the flying dutchmen
 

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[mailto:r129list-bounces at mbcoupes.com] Namens Anil M Seunath
Verzonden: maandag 9 maart 2009 13:07
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Onderwerp: [R129 SL] My story : SL280 Softtop



Gents : 

Its been a while since I've looked at the forum which probably means i
have not had any issues as of late. But i think its a good thing that i
share my experience on the Softtop issue 
About two years ago i was active on this forum, looking for ways to get
my softtop to work .. I had similar issues to most of us here.. It was
not until i got the diagrams from Jan that i started to understand how
the soft top worked. In short i pulled out all 12 cylinders and had them
serviced. Now you can't pull all out at once, since the softtop needs to
move to get access to some. When i say service, i had a local machine
shop pull apart the cylinder and replace the o-ring. However they never
worked .. they all leaked since the o-rings were not to spec and there
might have been slight damage on the shafts. 
So eventually .. i bit the bullet and purchased all 12 cylinders from
Mercedes Benz in Pompano, FL. It cost about 2,300 usd. Now the soft top
works near to perfect. I say near to perfect since the toggle switch
light still blinks all the time and the roll bar light blinks also.
Other than that .. the movement of the top is like new. My next project
is offcourse to get the lights to stop blinking. 

Thanks to the Flying Dutchman for all your help 

Anil Seunath 
Trinidad W.I. 

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