69 Benz + 94 Benz

Yeah, chop em them spend the money on some shorter front shocks instead. I had Suzuki samurai ones on my bagged one, they worked well although you will have to make some bottom mount tabs.

What a beauty! Love it

Oh that's a lovely example. Nice putchase! With the front springs, there are three or four "dead coils" at the bottom, so that makes it easy to cut the coils and still have them seat properly. I'd say start with two coils and see where you're at. You can get different thickness rubber top isolator pads from Mercedes, if you want to fine tune the ride height. I think there are 3 thicknesses available.
Rears I swapped the springs for shorter ones, so I can't advise on chopping them.

Spring removal on the front is a bit dodgy if you don't have the proper spring compressor tool. Ordinary compressors don't work as there's not enough room to put them on, you need the internal compressors. You can either buy / borrow the correct tool, make one yourself, or do it the dodgy way by putting a trolley jack under the lower arm, undoing the inner pivot bolts and VERY carefully lowering the jack until the spring is free. I'd recommend situating yourself at the front of the car for this, then if the spring does go ping it's less likely to hit you.

On the rear I had to cut the drop stops off to get the arm to move low enough to get the spring out. I also had to undo the driveshaft nut at the outer end to let the driveshaft slide out and not stop the arm lowering (only a 13mm bolt, nothing drastic)

Running very low can kill your driveshafts. Mine held up fine despite being very low, but others have smashed their CV joints. Years ago it didn't matter that much as they were quite plentiful but these days parts are getting rare and pricey.

wowzers thats very cool, always loved the old school mercs. "what do you mean you don't want to deck it?"

Haven’t got round to doing much to this yet. I did get one of the headlights working, I was expecting to find a bulb gone, but the headlights seem to be sealed bulbless units?
A wiggle and clean of the connector fixed it anyway.

I did fit the uk plates as I can’t be doing with any agro from the police.

I know someone who had a white one of these but a C plate.
Used it for weddings. Nice car

Bookmarked. Love that mint interior, looks brand new

Have you looked at the suspension wishbones to see if anything looked bent? I can't imagine how they could be bent to do that though. I have my w114 suspension in bits at the moment and the most likely thing I think is that one of your springs is tired. Or just maybe the diagonally opposite spring is too high and pushing that side down?


Whereabouts are you, I'm going to air-ride mine so don't need the front springs if you want them. According to the datacard of mine I had stronger springs for rough roads though that doesn't mean it's what I have now of course. A lot unofficial changes happened to mine in the 45 years before I got it.

Oh, is the difference such that a different rubber at the top of the spring would put it right? Ie biggest rubber on left, smallest on right?

Hmm just noticed your chrome window trim is different to mine (same year), I wonder if mine is just missing.

Or chop a slither more off the spring on the higher side.

That looks amazing well done nice choice of car and mod.