Wow Jaime, what a brute force day on your w116. I hope you do get it ready by Saturday but if you don't drive what ever you have. I have ordered 200 clams to steam, ingredients ready for Chowdah & Coleman Curt in high gear. Weather forecast so far looks good.
Dwight Giles Jr. 1982 300CD 2005 E320 4matic Wickford RI On Sep 1, 2018 8:07 PM, "Jaime Kopchinski via Mercedes" < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I hit a bit of a setback this week trying to find the time to work, but I > was back at it last night and today. I finished pulling the old bushings > out of the control arms and subframe. I ended up burning the last two out, > worked like a charm. I then sand blasted, primed, and painted the arms. I > ended up breaking a bolt off the held the spring cup on one arm, so I had > to drill that out and tap a new hole. New bushings went in without an > issue... slid right in with some rubber paste. > > I also banged out the old ball joints from the spindles. The first one > came out with a few blows from a 4 lbs sledge... under a minute. The > second one took a few hours. I managed to get it to move a bit with the 4 > lbs sledge before breaking the handle. The hardware store didn't have any > handles, but they did have a 6 lbs sledge, so I bought that. Blow after > blow... plus heat from MAP gas... finally the thing popped out. I'm > already sore, tomorrow will be worse i suspect. > > Still left to do: replace the upper control arms, which should go pretty > easily. Change the wheel bearings and install new rotors on the hub. > Reassmble the suspension. Install a new master cylinder and bleed the > brakes. Then I need an alignment. > > Its going to be tight for the Q, but i'm going to try. > > Jaime > > > > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 8:57 PM Jaime Kopchinski <jaime...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Sawzall made the subframe fall out... I cut right through the bushing and > > the bolt. Then I spent about an hour beating the control arms with > chisels > > and big hammers to get the old bushings out. I'm nearly done... just > about > > half of one bushing to go, then I have to get the subframe bushings out, > > which shouldn't be tooo bad. I can get the subframe in the press at > least. > > > > It did make me feel like all of this work is worth it when I saw the > > condition of the bushings. Some photos here: > > https://www.instagram.com/p/BnALEJCnDwE/ > > > > The picture showing the offset bushing in the control arm is most > > interesting... it shows how distorted the bushings are... it should > > normally be centered! I'm really looking forward to getting this car > back > > on the road, its going to be a joy to drive. > > > > Jaime > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 9:32 PM Jaime Kopchinski <jaime...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> I made some W116 progress... rear brakes are done (I started easy). > >> Front brakes, springs, hubs are out. Front adjuster bolts for both > lower > >> control arms are out. The subframe mounts the rear part of the control > arm > >> and to the body, so has to come down. The left side subframe bushing > bolt > >> came out without much fuss. Right side is a different story. I got the > >> nut off, but it seems that the bolt is seized to the bushing inside the > >> subframe. It took a long breaker bar with a pipe to get it turning a > bit > >> and I can feel the bushing turning. At least the bushing will be easy > to > >> get out once its down! I've got to hammer it out, but access is very > tight > >> to the back side of the bolt. Might need the sawsall. > >> > >> I'll continue tomorrow. > >> > >> Jaime > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Jaime Kopchinski > > http://www.jaimekop.com/ > > > > > > -- > Jaime Kopchinski > http://www.jaimekop.com/ > _______________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
