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Originally Posted by Bio240D
Hi Stretch!
Thank You Thank You Thank You for this exellent post!! I'm facing this project on a friend 201 very soon, I'll be referencing your post for guidence!
Cheers!
Chris
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Ahh good a guinea pig! Please let me know if anything isn't clear - I'll do my best to make good.
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Originally Posted by Mxfrank
Stretch:
When I did this on my car, I filled the cans with solvent to wash out the grease...and quickly regretted it, because there's no easy way to put fresh grease in. I ended up with a very large gauge needle on a glue syringe and injected grease in as I could, but I think I'll eventually have a problem with it.
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Oh dear. I did that just a little bit with my W123 homokinetic axles - not too much but it was enough to cause a whole lot of stamping of feet, swearing and bad behaviour up and down the garden path for a bit...
...it seems like such a good idea at the time - but if you are not careful you always end up with very liquid grease. To make things worse the W123 axle cans start out in life with oil - this has a grease watering effect as well. It isn't easy to be sure that you have enough grease all the way at the back of the can.
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Originally Posted by Mxfrank
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I see no need to press the boots on. Mine went on with very little manual persuasion, a little grease and some time.
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I've been traumatised by W123 homokinetic axles a boot gun and so called flex boots - never again - I will not go back to those dark days of frustration
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Originally Posted by Mxfrank
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Interesting that your clamps were too large...the ones that came with my boots were too small. I think mine were Lemfoerder, not sure. You'd think that finding the right clamp would be the easy part, but no.
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Yet another example of why this seemingly simple job can turn into a 'king nightmare. I still can not believe how bad it was trying to do those sodding W123 ones - at the time I'd have happily paid the two thousand euros or what ever it was at the dealer to buy new axles than go through that again!