Thanks! For those who have done motor mounts on older MBs, later model motor mounts are a major challenge. The W163 is especially unpleasant because you have to replace them form the wheel well, not underneath the car.
-D > On Jun 22, 2022, at 6:35 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good work. > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jun 22, 2022, at 9:16 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Did the left side this afternoon, under two hours from start to finish, not >> bad. I did much the same on this one as I did on the right side - I loosened >> the engine support that sits on the top of the mount to get enough room to >> R&R the mount. Made it pretty simple, not nearly the pig of a job it is when >> I did it on my last ML. >> >> Left side mount was totally trashed. Completely collapsed and the top bolt >> and anchor was torn away from the rubber, so it was resting directly on the >> steel frame of the mount. >> >> Car idles like “buttah” now. All I have left to do is order some of the >> plastic nuts that hold the fender liner in place, as the last person who was >> in there decided that they weren’t important and left some of them off. >> Idiot. >> >> -D >> _______________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________ 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
