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Old 04-03-2008, 12:11 AM
costanza costanza is offline
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I ordered a coil spring compressor today to refurbish the front lower control arms. I've already received the front lower control arm bushings and ball joints (about $100 total from ***************). I'm hoping I can do it all myself with a ball joint press from Autozone.

On a separate note, whereas the 2.6 engine I recently put into the $500 190E used to start up quickly and stay running when installed in my wrecked 190E, it takes a few seconds to start now and will die if I don't give it a blip on the throttle. One blip is usually enough and it runs smoothly. I'm thinking it has something to do with fuel delivery. I don't know the history of this $500 car, but the gas tank appears to have been removed because it was never bloted back down to the car's body. I'll probably replace the fuel pump/filter assembly with the one from my wreck first to see if that helps matters.

BTW, I'm on benzworld.org too... username JimAB
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