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Old 07-20-2020, 10:21 PM
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Need some help in colorado

I maintain a 91 300E for my uncle, who uses it to drive into town occasionally and bi annually drives from Aurora CO to Sacramento. He was here recently and his belt was loose enough to cause the power steering to skip so I tightened it for him. I even peered at the evil stupid bearing bracket and thought theres still room between the fan pulley and balancer, it hadn't began collapsing yet so I figured Good!. Anyway the friggin thing collapsed in the middle of utah (probably because I tightened the belt). He got home fortunately but chewed up his fan pretty good. We need a mechanic around denver that can do this repair. I'm a mechanic by trade and this has me worried. It seems like an easy job but Ive worked in shops and I know how this goes. He'll find a euro shop and they will throw one of their 3 apprentices at it (who probably drive Focus STi's) and he'll break the tensioner by not loosening the 19mm, not replace the special oil sealing bolt o-ring, break carbon electrode off the dist. cap, break the shroud, and probably leave the 19mm loose on the tensioner. They''ll probably use a URO part as well and it will fail again rapidly (been through 5 shops myself and the owners ALWAYS pick that URO **** to maximize their margin even though us techs have problems with nearly every uro item).



Anyway enough negativity of crap that hasn't even happened. I want to find a shop over there that can be trusted with an older Mercedes. Anyone know a MB shop with some employees that might be familiar with older mercedes? Or an individual that might want to get some side work? Theres no way I'm getting on a plane during COVID crap to replace a damned bearing bracket. I was going to post this in "good mb shops" but that place is deader than dead.





Any guidance would be appreciated.
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