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Nate,

The photos showed up at the bottom, as a link to the yahoo site.
If you do have further info on this job, I'd like to hear about it.

That said, I may just wait until I yank a bunch of stuff out, so it's clear.

Thanks

Rob
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On 12/13/15 5:29 PM, vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] wrote:

No Rob ;

It was my Coupe after the left side sway bar bushing bolt on the leading edge fell out on the I-405 freeway

I have many more photos and was going to write a series of aritcles covering this fairly easy job but no one said boo so I dropped it .

Should I continue ? .

It's a really tight job but just takes time and patience , I think I spent two days including all the careful cleaning , " polishing the cement " and so on .

All W-123's use the same details .

Did the photos show embedded or all at the top of my message ? .

-Nate
Rob wrote :

Nate,

Was this a 240D that you changed the Sway Bar Bushings on?

I tried to get at the driver's side bushing w/o removing the brake booster, yet it's way to tight in there on my '85 300D.
Decided to hold off on the Sway Bar Bushings for now, though I did put in new shocks (B. HD), rotated some tires, and inspected various parts.

At some point I need a tranny rebuild, and repair the leaking oil filter canister, which might also be a good time to pull the brake booster, to make room, and replace the Sway Bar Bushings.

Maybe a wash is in order now.

Rob
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I was remiss in not addressing this before ~ the Mercedes power steering uses ATF (the lid insists upon ATF) so it's cheap and easy to do , there's even a filter inside the pump's resivoir you can change out .

What I did was misplace my oil suction gun so i went to The Dollar Store and bought a .99 Cent turkey baster and used it to suck ou all the old dead black , stinking like third shift Police Dept. or navy coffee , then I used a deep 10MM socket to remove the plastic retainer and a war surplus dental pick top lift out the old nasty looking filter , sucked out more dead black ATF and then used clean and (! important !) LINT FREE towels to wipe out the sludgy good left behind .

My system was / is really dirty yet it works fine , no leaks but the inside of the resivoir os hard coated with dark baked in residue I can't wipe off , you can see it slightly above the fluid level .

First I removed the old filter , cleaned out the resivoir , dropped the filter back and , re filled it with fresh ATF then drove it a few hundred miles to flush it , then i drained it again , wiped it clean again and was pleased to see the very bottom of the resivoir is now clean and shiny , in time and a few more flushings the sides should be too .

Pic. # 1 is the resivoir full of fresh ATF , you can see the red translucence :

Pic. # 2 is the air bubbles bleeding out as I let it idle a while , after the bubbles stopped I gently turned the steering full lock left then right a few times :

Pic. # 3 is after 20 minutes of driving , the ATF is once again dead black , maybe really dark brown , it stinks again but not as bad :

This is an important routine service that tales less than one quart of ATF , I highly suggest buying fully synthetic ATF that's specified for Mercedes automatic transmissions .

I seem to have mis placed the photos I took of the filters old and new , the part # has changed slightly so I matched them up and they appear the same .

-Nate

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