Yep, that's about it.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Canfield" <slozuk...@gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 190D brakes
Well, if this is going where I think then one Alpha Sierra will wipe out
years worth of attaboys and no amount of attaboys will ever wipe out a
whole Alpha Sierra.
Did I get that right?
Mike
On Sep 10, 2012 4:38 PM, "WILTON" <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
Others may use it - after all, how'm I ever gonna get one, otherwise.
BTW, how many ATTABOYs does it take to clear away one Alpha Sierra;
conversely, how many Alpha Sierras does it take to wipe out 10,000
ATTABOYs?
Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dieselhead" <126die...@gmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 190D brakes
Good for you! It is nice when a job goes as planned, even with the heat
wrench that was added to the original plan. I will leave the Attaboy
for
Wilton, as it is his name brand.
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
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