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Originally Posted by Ceristimo
@Leathermang
Well, I can just feel your sarcasm oozing out of my laptop screen, but thanks for the comment and for clearing up where in the FSM it says that..
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If you will access a FSM and read it you will realize that MB did not do a ' good job' of putting things where they 'might' be most helpful for cherry pickers..... They figured that if they posted the WARNING somewhere that ought to be sufficient...the same for me posting a Warning from the FSM... I do not memorize where they are.... I read the FSM and post a warning where I remember them..... . they were not set up for people who were going to ' cherry pick' information just for a particular repair job.
That warning may be in the section dealing with the power steering pump...it may be in general information ..... there are a huge number of warnings in the MB FSM... that you have to just read the thing to find and know.... or you can do a good job of using the search feature here on the forum and you will surely find me saying do not use that nut because the FSM says not to use it... Do you have your forum setting set to where you are not seeing people's signatures ? If so, then my signature is of no use to you.... and other people's attempt to share stuff goes unseen also...
If , for each of your projects, you simply start a thread and ask a question... then you will get all sorts of input .. some of which has been shown to be outside the norm.... but which has over the years been thoroughly discredited ...and those conversations are in the archives... but that is a lot of reading compared to just asking a question and seeing who accidentally shows up ( immediately ) and adds their view. If you do not think any advice could be bad enough to cause you lots of extra work and or money... then go with the flow.... but I am conservative and want everyone's time and money to be utilized as best as can be... which causes me to follow the FSM as close as I can and to share the warnings in it with others...
Here is the other side to this conversation.... if you just think about what exactly you are turning with that nut...and the fact that the FSM SAYS to use the crank end nut...... the entire engine... which has four inch pistons pushing against 20 plus compression ratio.... one of which should be in the compression stroke at any point in the job. So lets say you have almost no experience with machines....
That is what the FSM is for....and what a forum is for... which has to include searching the archives because some people only stop by once in a while..... but a good thread will be a really good thread.... lots of back and forth... with WARNINGS or RED FLAGS..... which you then need to use other sources and ask more questions to separate the wheat from the chaff.