All's well that ends well. Stay in touch.
Ship the wheels in separate boxes, if it comes to eBay.
Bill in damp Oregon
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From: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 7:23 AM
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Back At It
I'm not yet fully recovered from the bake job I just did on my '82 240D, the new front Ate rotors and pads really bring the car to a rapid halt with little foot pressure and high, rock hard brake pedal .
The rotors were the originals with 367,000 + miles on them, the minimum thickness is 10.09MM, I'd be amazed to find they were still 9MM........ (oops) .
It turns out the rotors are held to the hubs by big beefy bolts that my American made electric impact gun wasn't able to loosen so I hauled a cardboard box full of rotors and hubs down to AGA and as I was staggering in the door with them Carlos came roaring out of the shop yelling '! are you crazy ?! do you think you're still 20 years old ?! gimme those !' .
He made sure to add some new loctite on the bolts, he says he's seen quite a few over the years loosen up and fall out whilst driving .
I took a brief nap as he buzzed the old rotors off and the new ones on, I went home cleaned the bearings inner & outer repacked them and buttoned it all back up and then did some other little fiddles whilst the car was up on jack stands, adjusted the center engine mount and I think reduced the vibrations felt from 50 ~ 55 MPH to nil .
I also replace those always gone missing rubber bushings between the tranny's steel cooler pipes and their steel holders, not a moment too soon as one showed severe wear . (imagine the pipe leaking all the ATF out of my freshly rebuilt tranny as I'm far from home )
Part # to follow, I bought them from the M-B classic center, a 112 suffix .
I took the left rear door apart to fix the window lift, it was stiff and groaning, turns out the metal slider bracket's zinc plating had some whitish corrosion, I wire brushed it clean using a metal (brass) tooth brush and all was well, just to be sure I sprayed a tiny bit of industrial silicone on the white nylon slider block and capped off the leaky vacuum lock actuator before buttoning it back up, now my central locking holds for 20 + minutes and I think I know where the final leak is......
Of course the new vacuum actuator showed up the very next day, I hope to install it soon .
Yesterday I was out doing my physical therapy in my favorite junk yard and stumbled across a set of four 14" light alloy disc wheels, these were only used for two years on U.S. 240D's so they're hard to find.
I bought the set, I'm pretty sure I have a single spare one @ home, making this a complete set of five I can sell for $250 .
If no one locally wants them I'll offer up on E-bay, they should get quite a bit there .
To - day's mission is a full set of up graded annular typ drive axles with flanges ~ all I needs do is take them off the junker and pay the guy $ .
Then I'll order up some boot kits from (where else ?) the Classic Center and overhaul them, install on this 240D then I'll only need one last set for my '84 graymarket 300TD and no more axles / boots until after I'm dead =8-) .
-Nate
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