Very nice. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '95 E300 '87 300TD Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>My wife reported that the brakes in the 190D "made a noise and then got >quiet" and it scared her. Apparently her definition of "quiet" and mine >aren't the same because when I tried it the right front wheel made an >ungodly racket. It'd had a hardened spot on the rotor for some time so >I'd already ordered new rotors and pads. Yesterday I installed. > >Remember a couple weeks ago I asked about replacing the rotor without >pulling the hub? A year or two ago I'd done the bearings on the >passenger front and the rotor kept falling off as I tried to set the >preload. Well yesterday that &^%$@#! rotor wouldn't come off for love >nor money. I had to pull the hub and balance it on two 2x4s and beat >the hub out of the rotor. On that side the pads fell out of the caliper >when I pulled it, neither had any friction material to speak of. > >On the other side one of the big bolts that holds the caliper on would >NOT come off. I resorted to the heat wrench which is hard because the >small bolts have a little rubber bellows thing on them, I didn't >realize at the time I could take rubber bellows thing off. On that side >the pads were fine... I *think* when I did the bearing I got grease on >the rotor which created the hardspot and ruined the pads. So it goes. > >Rusty sent me ceramic pads, I don't remember what brand he said they >were but they were in a Textar box. Apparently Akebono doesn't have an >application for a 190D. The rotors he sent (I spec'd the cheap PBR ones >which I had used on my '83 240D with success) are very nice and thick. >They weigh about twice the ones I took off and are marked "Made in >Germany" on the rim. > >My wife is VERY pleased with the new brakes and much more confident in >the car and my abilities. The latter is of course a nice feeling. > >-Curt > >_______________________________________ >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://mail.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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
