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04-04-2013, 11:53 AM
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87 300TD front end rebuild
OK, Jay_Bob's white wagon was doing the squeek squeek dance, so he ordered up the parts for the ball joints, and the LCA bushings and we tore into it last night.
about 3mm play in the driver's ball joint, the bushings were shredded on the outside, but not bad otherwise, we pulled them anyway. pressing them in is a pain, but a bit of experimenting and it was done. WHY DOES MB WRAP THE ROTOR SHIELD AROUND THE BALL JOINT??? pics to follow. 
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!  1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere! 
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04-05-2013, 02:20 PM
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My google phone is giving me fits. it won't let me upload to the picasa site... pics are forthcoming.
one of his control arms had been rebuilt previously, but it had febi parts in it, so we went ahead and installed the OE TRW parts. if I'd have had another control arm handy, I'd have swapped him, and kept his for use on another car... oh well. we cut the flared tube off each bushing, and whacked them out. used a screwdriver and hammer at first, then switched to an air chisel for the last set. I need either an arbor press or a larger vise to work with the control arms. mine JUST wouldn't open enough to fit the bushings in... so I modified a ball joint press, and used it with a hammer... it worked.
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!
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04-05-2013, 02:30 PM
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pics.
notice how much rust there is on the joint. also notice how much space there is from the ball to the clip between the two... I took a video, but it's too erratic to tell much from.
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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread "as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do! My drivers: 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5Turbo 1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!! 1987 300TD 1987 300TD 1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!
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04-08-2013, 07:50 AM
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 Update I think I did not fully dry out and warm up until sometime Friday afternoon...It was the nastiest, rainiest, coldest day one could imagine to attempt this sort of endeavor while outside. Car is driving great now, no more squeaking. Thanks again John for all the help and we'll hit part 2 (flex disks and carrier bearing) soon. I will definitely check the weather first!
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The OM 642/722.9 powered family Still going strong 2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD) 2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD) both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023 2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles) 2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles) 1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh 1987 300TD sold to vstech
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04-08-2013, 08:33 AM
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I feel your guys pain. I've been doing my entire front end for about a week now. I keep finding bad parts and tools that I need to finish the job properly. It hasn't been cold and the rain held off, but my 3 year old son sneezed on me and got me sick for the whole process. Somebody's pit bull got out and scared the crap out of me. I was wrenching away and just felt something staring at me. When I looked up I was looking into the eyes of a pit.
 It turned out to be a nice one though. I had lots of people stop and look at the car while I was working on it asking all kinds of questions about it. Then a "mechanic" walked by and told me I made a mistake buying this car because they are the hardest cars in the world to work on. I told this is the first car I ever worked on so I have no comparison, but I didn't think it was that bad. He got upset and walked away.  I need a garage so people will leave me alone. I couldn't use the c-clamp press I rented. I took my steering knuckles and new ball joints to sears and they pressed them in for 37.50.
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1985 300d smoke silver/red int. (204k) <--Sadie the 80's Mercedes from Hades! 1985 300TD 587 cabernet red/155 Creme (143k) 2007 Ford Expedition EL (54k) "Seems to me you bought a hobby... not a car" - My dad.
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