Bravo! Glad you've got that back on the road, that's a nice car. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300
On December 8, 2018 11:20:55 AM EST, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >I finally finished this last night. What a pain. I had to take the >alternator out of the car to get the remains of the pulley off. Had to >remove the pipe coming out of the turbo going to the intercooler to get >it out, which was ok but getting it back in was a huge ordeal. Very >tight in there and twisty all working from underneath. I finally >figured it out. > >The hub of the pulley was munched to where I had to take the grinder to >the front end of it to get some clean splines to put the tool in there. >(Max loaned me the tool, yay Max!). Used the HF electric impact wrench >and it spun right off, I couldn’t budge it with the hand wrenches. The >new one went on easily. Car back on the road. > >This seems like a really dumb idea having this design with this weird >pulley but it’s guess the Benz engineers knew what they were doing... >the part was cheap enough but R&R was hugely unpleasant. > >FYI the tool has two parts, one is a splined-end rod about 4in long >that fits in a splined hole in the shaft (it has a 1/2in drive end) >then the other is a splined inverted “socket” that slides over the rod >and into the pulley hub, it has like a 15mm “nut” end, you use them to >spin the shaft while holding the pulley. > >Next time it will be a lot easier... > >--FT >Sent from iPhone >_______________________________________ >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
