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Apparently removal of the hood star assembly can be a PITA
I must have bad luck and an old style without the little metal "ears" aid in turning the lock ring. Mine ended up loose with the spring loaded part cocked to one side before I gave up before I made it worse.
All I wanted to do was remove it before taking off the hood to replace the liner so I could lay the hood on blankets on the ground...!
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The hood pad is easy to do if you use a plank. There are some lessons learned in this thread.
www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/343510-85-300d-hood-pad.html
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The engineer who designed the retainer for the hood star must be the most hated Daimer Benz employee by owners around the world. It's effing ridiculous. If someone who has mastered the procedure would do a DIY (or even better, a video) I would be eternally in their gratitude.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiFNaN38zfk
This is a newer style, but it looked pretty straightforward...until I f-ed it up. going to try again after I have my coffee so I'm not as p1$$ed when it gets worse.
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The earlier style isn't that straightforward. IIRC you have to pull the retainer out a bit, then turn. That is where you fall into the hurt locker. If the retainer slips during the procedure, everything goes off... like guts spilling out of a clock mechanism. Only way I can describe it.
Someone else who has done it recently can chime in. It's been a few years since I had the pleasure. I messed mine up that time but my retired neighbour, who lives to fiddle with anything mechanical, spent a quality hour or two on it and managed to sort it out.
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Yeah, I don't think I am totally in the hurt locker yet, I am probably going to try to get it to just pop back into place...looks like removing the hood is unnecessary to do the liner anyway. I will get a board and give that a try.
Hopefully I can get it back together without (further) disaster.
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My procedure
This is probably the most incorrect way to remove and/or install the hood star assembly but it has worked easily for me on w123's, w124's, w126's, and a w201. I use needle nosed pliers to remove the little "key" that is held in the end of the spring and then the assembly comes out of the grill easily...1 minute tops! To reinstall the assembly I position it in the grill as it should be and then use a thin yet stiff wire to run up in the assembly and hook it into the end of the spring and pull down to reinstall the "key". Takes about two minutes tops to reinstall. As I stated earlier, I'm sure this is the most incorrect way to do this but it works extremely well for me and causes no damage to the equipment. I also may be misunderstanding what the OP is trying to do.
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I just got home from work yesterday and was feeling way too ambitious and started fiddling on the star. I guess it was good it didn't just slip right off or I would have kept going.
I wasn't aware that the hood could go into "German salute" position. Guess I'll pick up a small shop vac and start the clean up with the hood on-car.
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There's also removable star kits where you simply pull your three-pointed hood ornament when you think you may be in a bad area to leave it unattended. Don't know how much those aftermarket kit emblems are, but they're not MB-issue if I recall correctly. |
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I got it back seated correctly after about 30 minutes of twisting and cursing. I'm not touching that tarbaby again. Now to clean off all that decomposed foam and reline with a new one.
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Got the star back in place after 30 minutes of cursing and manipulating with various metal instruments. I'm staying far from that thing from now on.
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