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Originally Posted by lsmalley
Seems like you're putting a lot of effort into something as simple as figuring out how to mount a part when you can easily either go check under the car you're mounting it on to see which way it goes, if possible, or just Google images of rear flex disc orientation. Either way, several hours have already gone by and you don't seem any closer to the answer of your original question of mounting orientation.....unless you've now deviated from that and just want to know about the business affairs of some manufacturer  . At any rate, the photo you posted appears to be the disc that can be mounted either way. On the discs that are unidirectional, the mounting holes are offset and the front of the disc is stamped to inform you of which way the disc should face. |
You make one of my points. This one doesn't seem to require a particular orientation. Hence my surprise at the notion.
If I can't be comfortable with the manufacturer I'll send this back and get an actual FEBi if I can't find another genuine MB part before then. No big hurry. Not sure you caught my drift on the manufacturer ID thing,
I am just trying to perform due diligence as to if his parts are on the OK list or the other one. I won't mention any names. It seems unlikely at this juncture that it will turn out to be China poo, but it might be experimental, and who knows how that resolved? Reading the PAT and some of the panoply of links you can find through it makes it clear that this is NOT OEM, even if intended to fit. If this 'new' idea works it seems Giovanni Bartoli may have stumbled upon a solution to not a problem considering the current units are approaching 40 years of age and 200k miles and still not failed. Or maybe his would fail
What I am taking home is that this manufacturer is not well known here. Could still go either way. I haven't done these before on a benz, but my guess is the rear position will be the easier one ( right? ) and that is where the experiment will go if I keep it. I'm thinking of spray painting a masked stripe on the joints before disassembly to assure they keep their current non vibrational alignment.
Apparently this 'brand', whatever it turns out to be, is so obscure we won't find out much about it.
anybody else want to test it?
