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Originally Posted by Skippy
I've done a lot of alignments, and I've never heard of doing it this way. I, along with every other tech I've ever seen, center the steering wheel and use a spring loaded holder to keep it that way.
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Skippy - I just went through the manuals I have on my 240D and none of them show the procedure for doing an alignment. If you have that, I'd like to see if what I said about the centering bolt is in print from Mercedes. The special tool for locking the steering box in the center is mentioned in the manuals for various other steering jobs - a part number is also given. On my ponton the centering bolt screws in from the top. On the 240D it screws in from the bottom. In both cases it replaces a standard bolt on the steering box. I have understood that this centering bolt and the spreader bar are two factory required tools for doing a Mercedes alignment properly. Any light you can shed on the subject would be appreciated.
Is it possible that if an alignment was done incorrectly previously that centering via the steering wheel will not actually center the steering box?
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Len
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