Still bleeding brakes. 500e master is in but I keep finding new air pockets. The pressure bleed thing is finally working after replacing all the grommets and caps. I think it is air trapped in the abs pump somehow.
I want some jack stands with threaded adjusters to weld 3/4" rod to and use for jacking the car up. Whoever put the w124 jack pads under the temp jack holes was not thinking clearly. Currently I build two stacks of blocks on either side of the floor jack and use a short 2 x4 in line with the door sill above the jack. One stack for each end of the 2x4. Seems plenty strong as it is only bridging about 6" Cant bring myself to jack my new diff mounts up. On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, 2:34 PM Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: > Among other things, I finally broke down and changed out a cheep chinee > valve for 1/2 copper that has seeped/leaked through the casting since it > was new. a few years ago I tried soldering the leaky area. It will > stop for a few months, then leak again, then stop, then leak ad > infinitum. I paid Made in USA price for the junk valve at lowes. It > never leaked much, just enough to mark its territry and be a PITA. > > I paid Made in USA price for a NIBCO valve made in Meh he ko at Fleet > farm this time. It leaked from the stem, but after I tightened the > packing, it seems to be holding. > > The thing I hate is paying Made in USA prices for imported cheap stuff. > > The good news is: A lot of the "C level" yokels are beginning to > discover that cheap labor does NOT translate into cheap operating > cost. I think I heard another 130,000 new manufacturing jobs in the US > in the last month. > > _______________________________________ > 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
