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Originally Posted by Diseasel300
My 300SDL was grossly overtightened when I got it, took two hands to park! I backed it off and it was fine. You don't really have anything to lose by trying. If the box is junk, it's junk. If you back it off and everything is fine, that's $300 and several hours of your life you didn't have to spend on it. Just don't go down the rabbit hole of trying to eliminate slop in the wheel, if you have 1" of play, leave well enough alone - the rebuilt/new box will too.
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Got it, I'll try again with more rust penetrant, unfortunately the nut is directly under one of the intake manifold plumes and I can only get a wrench on it, no breaker bar.
I did notice that the freeplay is in the coupler. I could move it back and forth by hand while under the car with absolutely nothing happening internal to the box. Is that the normal freeplay?
07-21-2020, 04:14 PM
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