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How I ended up fitting the bushings to my W123 300D LCA How I ended up fitting the bushings to my W123 300D LCA
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Old 09-11-2010, 04:06 AM
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Congrats, Army! I always learn something from your posts - nice to see ingenuity in action. You remind me of a famous engineer who works at National Semiconductor, Bob Pease; one of his famous sayings is "Show me where it says I can't do that."

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Wow that's overly generous Kurt - thanks - I'm now going to see if I can leave the room with my fat head!

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Oh btw the socket adapter for flaring was sheer genius. It worked perfectly. Then I lost it for the other 3 bushings (w124).
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Searching for an effective way to R&R LCA bushings and stumbled upon this. What's this WDM???
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Old 12-25-2015, 03:24 PM
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Searching for an effective way to R&R LCA bushings and stumbled upon this. What's this WDM???
I figured as you seemed to be the first person to show how to do it on this forum you get the credit!
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I'm currently rebuilding two W126 front suspensions and trying to come up with a simple way to install the 3 piece LCA bushings with out destroying them.
Stay tuned...
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Old 12-26-2015, 01:09 PM
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I'm currently rebuilding two W126 front suspensions and trying to come up with a simple way to install the 3 piece LCA bushings with out destroying them.
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This might help

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/360545-w126-lca-bushing-installing-w123-lca.html

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