tonight I made a bunch of progress..
First I made a new carrier bearing setup for the drive shaft , got ahold of a 45mm bearing and pillow block and fitted it, absolutely perfect!!
Then I putzed with the electrical system, also picked up a new Chevy oil pressure sender unit.. since the old one I busted when removing it from the old Chevy motor.. all the factory gauges, minus the speedo will be working
The i decided to make the throttle cable assembly, this consisted of hacking up some of the stock Chevy stuff and making the bits i needed to make the chevy throttle cable work with the Benz setup... worked out well.. I'll get a photo of it tomorrow.
Then I went to the old Benz shell and was looking at the kick down switch... Please confirm this if I'm correct, it looks as if when at full throttle it applies 12v to the solenoid.. or is it the other way around it's normally got 12v and then when at full throttle it cuts the voltage?? I didn't have a voltmeter handy , but it's simply one wire to the solenoid and looks like 2 wires into the foot switch.. also any one know how how much current flows through this circuit? I may move the switch inside the engine bay instead of at the foot pedal.. If it s small currents levels i could use a simple micro switch on the throttle linkage, if its higher current I could just do the same a wire in a relay to handle higher current levels.
Tomorrow I'll be able to get the steel for the motor mounts, to bad I have a trip to go on this weekend.. or i could get them done this weekend.. We'll see how far I get tomorrow night on them.
