PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - W126 The EPIC has BEGUN... Project "Sway" is Underway!

pawoSD · #11 12-22-2005, 11:56 PM

Tonight we got back to work on the sway project (we're ignoring the jack point issue for the moment, didn't need to raise the car anyways)

We pulled the cables going across out of the way, and the brake line, and removed the brackets successfully, with tons of PB blaster. The nuts were in OK condition, the permenant bolt/threads are just fine and in great shape, thankfully. Brackets came out with no problems, then we pulled the sway bar, wasn't all that difficult at all. WAY easier to maneuver that thing than it is to do the oil cooler lines, those took me almost an hour to snake in back when I did them on my car, the bar took about 3-4 minutes to get out.

My dad then went to work for about an hour on the surface rust etc in those areas, and cleaned it up then treated it with the awesome rust converter stuff, its the purple looking stuff in the pictures, it dries to a super hard rustproof black surface. Tomorrow we'll be putting the new bar in, hooking the suspension all together and doing the brackets, then we begin the reinstallation of everything. Horray!!! Below are some pictures of the after-results of tonights work, I forgot to take pics of the sway bar itself, I'll put some in the next update, I'll get some good shots of how it failed/snapped, and also of the side that didn't, but was also in very bad shape/quite corroded.

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Our awesome heater that has given us an amazingly comfortable work environment: