I was not witness to the wheel wiggle visual. A person could tell that something was not right and that there was movement of a sort at the wheel point from inside the car. It felt to me that the caliper had come loose, or that a bushing was allowing excess movement when changing direction from reverse to forward motion, or when braking in reverse. While the whole circus was going on, I was drooling over the three W113 that were waiting to go up on the lift. Much consternation and looks of horror were had, which got my attention, so I went to find out what the excitement was. Witnesses were describing immanent catastrophe, so I took them at their word.
clay 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers On Mar 7, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > Glad you caught this, but I'm confused. > > I don't understand how a missing caliper bolt would make the wheel wiggle. > There's no relationship between the caliper and the wheel as far as the > wheel's position. > > Please elaborate. > > Dan > > > > >> On Mar 7, 2015, at 8:47 PM, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Months ago, #1 boy and I installed new rotors on his w140. We had already >> done the pads long before. About three weeks ago, the driver side front >> wheel began groaning when he would shift from reverse to drive. Around the >> same time the boy had been doing 50 work weeks on the 0400-1400 shift. He >> was too brain dead to be inquisitive about the cause. >> >> Today, we attended a tech session at a local indy shop. I had him drive me >> in the w140 on the chance he would be willing to toss it up on the lift. As >> he was parking the car, one of the local officers got all excited that the >> lower control arm had failed, based on the giant movement of the wheel in >> the well. That gave him impetus to have it looked at. All the others who >> had seen the floppy wheel were going on about how brave we were to have >> tried to drive it. That we would be needing a ride back home, as it was in >> no way safe to drive. >> >> On the ramp, the car was not doing what everybody thought it should be if >> the LCA were failing. The upper ball joint is not that great on either >> side, but will work for now. The wiggly wheel was due to the lower caliper >> bolt having exited the vehicle, probably very early one dark morning. We >> had torqued all the bolts, but this one needed to either have gone back on >> the ramps a few times to get them retorqued, or had a dab of lock tite used. >> Shop had a spare bolt and a dab of goo, so the wheel was no longer going to >> make us dead. >> >> While on the lift, it was found that the shift bushings had escaped as well. >> Shop owner, who was poking around the underside pulled the lever and popped >> a new bushing on. Now the gears engage easier. He also confirmed that the >> wire harness is garbage and to deal with the leaking head gasket, we will >> want to find a new one and put it on. That should also deal with the >> blinking lights on the dash. >> >> While looking at the 600 SC that was hemorrhaging M1 and ATF, I walked head >> first into the bent 22" rim and rubber band tire. Ended up flat on my butt >> sitting in a puddle of ATF. Now my neck hurts. >> >> At least the complimentary beer, ribs, beans, and 'tater salad the owner >> cooked up were tasty. >> >> >> >> clay >> >> 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap >> 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green >> 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran >> 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV >> POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://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 >> >> All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those >> individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has >> no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. > > > _______________________________________ > http://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 > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://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 All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
