Our extra car, Sybill the beater 300SDL, has always had a bad case of the clunkies. When braking, you can feel it banging away right underneath your feet and, even though you'd never know it at the steering wheel, looking at the upper ball joints, control arm bushings and guide rod ends tells the rest of the tale: this car had a hard life before arriving at Area 51.

I'll cover replacing the gude rod bushings, upper control arms and lower control arm bushings in this.

First get it up on stands and get the wheels off:

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