As anyone that has read any of my previous posts can plainly see, I am not a mechanic. I am learning however. For example: the tie rod nightmare that started this thread has taught me to not buy MB parts from ebay, not to modify crucial components, the proper tool for removing a tie rod, there is an '86 420 SEL in my local junkyard, post on the forum first then proceed, Parts Shop rocks and that doing this job twice still costs less than 50% of what the shops around here quoted. The tranny leak bugs me and I am going to fix it even if it takes months. I have had many great victories in the past several years that I have owned this car. At the rate that I am going by the time my boys start driving it will have been rebuilt by me several times
