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Old 06-08-2008, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by dieseldan44 View Post
You need a 14 mm and 16mm open end wrenches I believe.

-Get the car to hot idle, shut the car off.
-There is a locknut on the old pin. Loosen this a couple turns.
-With the wrench, and then your fingers unscrew the old rack damper pin. A valuable technique: Straddle the oil cooler line with your thumb and middle finger to make the turns. This makes the whole procedure SOOO much easier. I laughed a cosmic laugh when I realized this.
- Remove and observe.
-Take some of the oil off the old pin and put a little on the new gold pin.
-Screw pin into the IP until you feel a little resistance.
-Turn the car on.
-Now it's time to tweak. Back out the screw until the engine really lopes. You'll know when youre there.
-Now screw in a couple turns, to right after it stops loping. It will not get much smoother going in further, it supposedly will be harder to start.

This improved my hot idle quite a bit. I got a gold damper screw off a junkyard car. There's an article that ive probably paraphrased pretty much at mbz.org IIRC.

Good luck!
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I think I am screwed, mine will not turn by hand, even after seriously loosening the lock nut.
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