On 2/16/2011 5:03 PM, Barton wrote:
You have to be careful with your choice of mechanic, get the wrong one and they'll have you by the balls. You should really get a better reason for the delay. One tactic, get one of your biggest, meanest looking friends and stop by to inquire exactly what the delay is.Hi,
I recently had all four tie rods and both ball joints replaced by my trusty Euro specialty mechanic here in Metrowest, MA. He replaced all of that, the steering box and idler arm rebuilt, along with five new glow plugs in less than 8 hours of shop time. If you look at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diesel_mercedes/photos/album/796370990/pic/list
you'll see what I found about a year ago when I had one of the ball joints replaced....
and then look here for the manifest of parts I just put into it:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/diesel_mercedes/photos/album/614318898/pic/1349541752/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc
Not sure what's holding your shop up, but it shouldn't take that long unless for some reason they can't get the parts. (We had no problem ordering parts).
Hope this is somehow helpful...mine is 1984 300SD
-Barton
--- In diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com, Nate Rector <tccservice111@...> wrote:
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> Is there somebody really in Del Rio that works on Mercedes?Thats good to know,in case driving I 10 you could detour at Van Horn and take 90 to San Antonio.
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> --- On Wed, 2/16/11, Alan Boucher <alstheone@...> wrote:
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> From: Alan Boucher <alstheone@...>
> Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Replacement of ball joints
> To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 9:45 AM
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> On 2/15/2011 7:27 AM, Greg Arrambide wrote:
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> Going nuts my 1984 300SD has been in the shop for a week, for ball joint replacement. Still waiting for it to be done mechanic has no news but that he is working on it is it that difficult any special tools or procedures required. I know he was replacing tie rods, upper control arms, lower ball joints and shocks.
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> Greg
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> n61cm <jim@...> wrote:
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> >They were talking about organic dog food on "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me" a couple weeks ago. One of the panelists said if he had a life expectancy of 12 years, he'd eat Twinkies every day.
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> I took my 240D in for a Lower ball joint replacement. When I picked it up he said that he now knows why I didn't do it myself.
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