Diesel RVs: 02/21/16

[diesel_mercedes] Old ORIGINAL Hardware

ONLY 20 # ?!

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I have so much hardware it's literally every where ~ in my yard , garage , bedroom , hallway , boxes here and there , out side under my Tangerine tree....

I use so much hardware because it's almost always gone missing or wrong etc.

-Nate
Brian wrote :

Hey, buy a cheap camera. One of the great things about PAP yards are the nuts, bolts, clamps, and "stuff laying around on the ground and in the cars. I probably have 20lbs of such in a coffee can that I look at every now and then.

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[diesel_mercedes] Sway Bar Bushings

You're most welcome Rob ! I owe you big time .

-Nate
Rob wrote :

Thanks Nate.

Rob
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On 2/20/16 5:32 PM, vwnate1@... [diesel_mercedes] wrote:

O.K. ;

Rob asked me how the heck to access the 13MM ATF nuts holding the driver side sway bar bushing clamp ~ pic. # 1 shows the 13MM 3/8" drive socket on a knuckle and long extension ,

Pic. # 2 shows me reaching one of the nuts on the bottom of the brake booster from under the hood .

Pic. # 3 shows how I reached the other 13MM ATF nut from underneath the left fender after removing the wheel and the delicate cute little , very important white (when new) plastic cover .

To access the upper two nuts I had to disconnect some wires and move them out of the way .

All in all this isn't a terribly difficult job , just lots and lots of mindless labor plus turning nuts one or two flats , re position the wrench , turn it one more flat , re position the wrench.... this sort of work will drive you bonkers but patience is king here .

I have a whole slew of photos I took doing this job , they're blurry and poorly lighted but once you're working on it , they'll make perfect sense .

After you struggle this one clamp off , the rest of the job is pretty straight forward .

Sorry I don't know how to make PDF files .

-Nate

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[diesel_mercedes] Wagon Brakes

Thanx ! .

Oddly , I've never bought a heat gun ~ I suppose I should but the job is done now anyway .

California car , NO RUST .

-Nate
Alan wrote :

I've found that a little heat from an electric heat gun on the hose close to the solid line nut helps. I had one that resisted that treatment so I used a very small torch flame in the same place. I overdid it and blew the hose. Luckily that allowed me to loosen the nut. I was planning on replacing the hose anyway, so no harm was done. If the nut hadn't loosened, I'd have had to piece in a line section .

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:30 PM, vwnate1@... [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

O.K. ;

I got home this morning and went straight to work , buttoned up the brakes , and found some 6MM X 1.00 allen screws to hold the sensor wire plug to the caliper ,

Discoverd the passenger side hose to hard line 11MM ATF nuts was jammed in place ~ it actually slipped on my American made flare nut wrench so I stopped before I rounded it to junk , got a small pair of American made Vise - Gips (" Mole Pliers " to our English Friends) and ever so carefully clamped them tightly on and loosned the joint , tighened the hose to caliper then rotated the flex hose so there were no teists in it , important as the small twist plus the hydraulic pressure will often cause them to rupture....

Bled all four calipers out with my Motion Pro pressure bleeder , it turns out the pressure leaking out of it was the cleap plastic hose connecting the tank to the resivoir cap was dying of old age and sun exposure , I looked in the original box and found a long bit of 3/8" clear plastic hose (I guess I'd bought it long ago as the provided hose is decidedly too short) , carefully loosened up the pinch typ clamps , installed the new , longer hose and ever so gently re squeezed the clamps with a pair of dykes and I was off to the races ~ it easily held pressure (a shade under 5 #) and the bleeding went normally , I discared all the new fluid I ran through it , I'm using DOT 4 brake fluid .

I discovered the wheels I'd washed three weeks ago , were not actually clean ~ rather , the de greaser had sluiced off all the oil and left them covered in nearly 1/16" of ancient brake dust that began flying around as soon as I touched it....

Sigh .

Out came the non metallic brushes and an old oily rag , I cleaned much of the fluffy brake dust off dry then rinsed them down , sprayed with Simple Green abnd went to town scrubbing ~ I can now see most of the shiny original glossy black paint although they're no where as clean as I'd like them to be .

I also discovered I have all five original date coded 15" (!) wheels but have FOUR different brands of original Mercedes 12 X 1.50 MM lug bolts plus -one- that had no maker's mark anywhere on it and appears to have a slighty different thread pitch so I maybe be ponying up for TWENTY (GA$P) new lug bolts from Tom at the Classic Center as some of the otherwise O.K. original bolts have mashed flats from some tire shop boob using the wrong size socket with an impact gun . it's always something , right ? .

After I was done (but of course !) I found the box full of missing hardware and 6MM bolts etc. so that's good .

I also found and collected into one box , all the various door checks as I need to service some more for the 240D and Coupe .

All this plus more before Noon , I'm tired .

-Nate

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Al Boucher