I'm afraid having no ADEQUATE help right now may be my biggest problem, too. If I enlist SWMBO to help hold something, and it slips, we both may be "ruined for life." Four friends are excellent managers and engineers, but nearly worthless as mechanics. One of 'em helped me change oil in the 126 'bout 3 years ago using my $2 sucker when my tremor was so bad; 'spent most of the time (long time) explaining every little thing to 'im. Most of 'em were, "Why are you doing that? Why don't you just --- etc, etc? Why don't you just crawl under it and take the plug out --- etc, etc? Wouldn't it be better to just take it to a garage?" So it went for maybe coupla hours for a job that I could normally do in 30 minutes or less, including getting equip out, etc.
Wilton ----- Original Message ----- From: "OK Don" <okd...@gmail.com> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Timing chain switch > I've not replaced the chain, rails, and tensioner on a 603 in situ, but have > on the 61x series. There is a test in the manual for the tensioner, IIRC - > something like place it in a coffee can full of oil, and see if you can > compress it - should be really hard to do (I'm not sure about this - RTFM, > don't take my word for it). The tensioning rail was easy to replace. The > others would require removing the front case. I only replaced the tensioning > rail, being lazy. Peening the new link was the most difficult part of the > job, because I had no help. The proper MB tool crimping would make that a > breeze ---- > > > -- > OK Don > W124 Diesels > Ubuntu 8.10 > KD5NRO > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090223/d3 6ee604/attachment.html> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
