If you are removing the SLS, sell me the dual circuit steering pump and the control valve. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC
On October 5, 2019 12:22:14 AM EDT, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >Swapping a 500e subframe into the 87 wagon is one of the more pointless >things I have done, but the old one is out and I am building up the new >frame, so no going back. Just did it to fit a 210mm diff in for a >limited >slip carrier. The whole assembly will all be new stuff, except the >pinion >seal - didn't feel like messing with the nut on the pinion. > >It used to squeak from the left rear wheel at slow speeds on bumps. I >thought it was the spindle bearings on the lower control arm, but I was >wrong. Most of the stuff had already been done a few years ago with >Meyle >etc stuff; those spherical bearings were new and smooth. Of course I >had >new OE ones, and the tool, so out they came anyway. > >Come to find the SLS struts have a spherical bearing on the bottom. >This >chassis must have over 300k on it, and I'm pretty sure these were the >original struts. All oily, the little bellows things were long gone, >and >the left lower ball joint was completely dry and sticky. I got some new >OE >sportline ones out of Germany a while back, so in they go. > >The rear springs were some dropped height aftermarket affairs. All they >did >was wear out my rear tires on the insides. New OE sportline stuff going >in. >Then I will have to put new ones in the front to match. > >The little toe-in eccentric links are NLA from Mercedes, so I got some >Lemforders from partscontainer on ebay. I don't think Lemforder make >them >any more. > >The diff mounts are holding me up. Turns out the OE mounts are NLA. We >are >talking like early 90s 500sl stuff. I found some in Latvia so they are >probably on a boat somewhere. I even have a fancy diff mount removal >tool, >but of course it is for a non v8 w124 and the SL/500e mounts have twice >the >diameter, so the dies on the removal tool won't work for the larger >mounts >without ripping the centers out of the old mounts. I guess I will round >up >a generic bearing removal tool with a set of dies on ebay or amazon to >get >the mounts out and in. If I can get the old ones out in one piece I >will >dissolve the rubber out and fill them with urethane and maybe use them >in >the e420. > >Once I get the new 500SL diff mounted, I can measure the driveshaft >length >and see if the v8 sedan rear section will fit. > >Fortunately the rear wheel bearings had already been done by the >previous >owner. That job is supposedly a bear on the wagons because the bearing >diameter is bigger and the rollers get caught somehow when pressing it >out. >So at least I don't have to go buy a press this weekend. > >Broke the shield over the fuel pump area (I don't know what it protects >on >the diesel cars) just ahead of the right rear wheel well. It had a >rounded >off nylon nut that was totally inaccessible with the subframe halfway >out. >So I could not remove it. Subframe got caught on the shield and ripped >a >corner off. Someone in NC had an old stock part. Those shields are >pretty >strong, with fiber reinforcement of some type. > >Finally got David Hendy to send me a new red wiring connector for the >airbag, so that was very cool. He is a good guy. I broke the old one >when >changing the multifunction stalk out. > >I have been driving the car around with only one front seat for awhile. >Amazing how roomy the car is like that. I have been procrastinating >doing >the second front seat cover. The sportline seats have more clips and >the >upper ones are super hard to install once the new cover is on. One day. >The >original cover on the passenger 500e seat I am putting in is still >pretty >decent anyway. Driver side was shopworn with some holes. GAHH covers >are >OK, but nothing like the original leather. Maybe the original leather >looked like the GAHH stuff when it was newer, but I doubt it. > >Does anyone know how to put the bump stops on the front struts? Can the >top >mount just be removed, or is it spring loaded? > >If anyone needs a non-v8 w124 diff mount tool, or the fancy one for the >spherical spindle bearings on a 124, let me know. >_______________________________________ >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
