Here is what you do, shouldnt take more than a couple of hours. Jack
car way up. Put jack under the diff, unbolt it from the car, lower it.
Put jack under the subframe/control arm on the side you are doing, and
then remove the huge single bolts from that side. Lower assembly. Then
you can get to the 2 swing bolts and undo them. Oh yea, dont forget to
unbolt the shock and unbolt the caliper. Lower the arm down and the
spring will fall out. Its not under very much pressure at all. Install
is reverse.
tom savage wrote:
I need to replace a rear trailing arm on my '82 300D. I've got a new
one from OkiePartz ready to go in, but I'm curious about the removal of
the old one. The manual tells me I need to pull the entire rear axle
assembly, but my own inspection says this is unnecessary, correct? The
other point that really has me wondering is rear spring removal. I'm
told that a spring compressor is not required for this. Can I safely
remove the spring after loosening the bolts at the pivot points on the
trailing arm and slowly lowering the arm under a floor jack? Again, it
looks like it, but given the amount of energy stored in these things, I
think I'm better off not finding out the hard way.
For those wondering why I would want to do such a thing, I had a rather
nasty surprise on the way home from work the other day:
http://thomas.savage.org/notgood.jpg
Thanks,
Tom
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