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Originally Posted by chasinthesun
Im doing the same job but also oil cooler lines at the same time .I had a striped allen bolt on the in board driver mount.I had to pull the motors mount arm that hangs off the motor to get at the bolt .Heres a secret ,if you get the other bolt out then try to wiggle the mount by twisting it ,I used a hammer to get it some what broken free, then a screwdriver was all that was needed once the bolt had broken its hold.I thought I had won the battle with the lines ,used one good line from a 300d that I thought would work ,well, it goes with out saying Ill be back under it this sunday but its only about an hr left before wrapping it up .Once you do one the tricks kind of look simple.
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Stripped allen bolt sounds bad. I looked back on old posts and someone had used a 12-point socket and pounded it over the allen head to successfully remove the big lower one, not sure how that would work for the smaller rear one but I think you could get at it once engine is raised. Something for the future. Also I think the right size star socket pounded into the allen hole should have worked since they are normally tapered, and the torque on those wasn't that high on mine.
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1983 300SD with bad undercarriage rust, with old greasecar 2-tank conversion. About 200K miles, just an adolescent but with premature bone disease.
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