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[MBZ] More on FCP Euro Parts CJQeQdN32u

2016-09-01 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes

I still haven't done the flex disks on my 126 300SD, in part because I
needed the center bearing parts. 

 

I ordered these parts from FCP Euro and here's what I got:

 

*   The bearing is FAG (Korea) which is good stuff IMO

*   The driveshaft boot is Rein (as listed on the FCP site) made in
Italy, looks OK but not a critical part

 

I ordered two driveshaft supports because I was unsure of the quality:

 

*   The Rein part came in a box marked made in India, 2015.  The rubber
is stamped with the old MBZ part number (126 410 0181) where something else
appears to have been ground off.  The flat rubber face appears to have
surface cracks and the rubber feels "dry."  This one was about $10.

 

*   The Meyle part came in a bag with a Made in China sticker.  But the
rubber is stamped MEYLE-Germany and it is stamped with the new part number
(014 041 0042).  It appears to have some kind of coating (paint?) on the
flat rubber surface.  It too has "surface cracks" which appear to be only in
the coating and the rubber feels more "live" under the coating.  This one
was about $20.

 

 

I'm inclined to go with the Meyle part at this point.  Or maybe I should get
OE for about $100?

 

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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes


I assume the same goober "fixed" it too!


Jim Cathey via Mercedes 
September 1, 2016 at 10:47 PM
With only 1 hose ruined, why wasn't the _other_ brake circuit (there are
two) working?

-- Jim


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[MBZ] DIY Wuz: Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes

I have a couple places I will let touch the air cond.  I let certain 
shops do alignment, and I let tar shops mount and balance tars.


Last set of tars, they screwed up the TPM so it leaked.  I took it back, 
they said it didn't leak.  I took it back again and that time they 
finally took the tire off and told me I had a bad TPM.  They told me it 
had been installed wrong.  (crossthreaded)  When I pointed out it was 
the only one they had replaced, they ate it.  Good thing, because 
otherwise, I'd have made them eat it one way or another..


I don't know how many engines I have seen that never had the oil filter 
changed even though the owner was charged for the filter and changing 
it.   In the OM621 and 615, they'd throw away the main filter always and 
change the cartridge sometimes.  Without the main filter, the oil didn't 
go through the cartridge.  Effectively, there was no filter.



Mitch Haley via Mercedes 
September 1, 2016 at 9:32 PM



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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes

With only 1 hose ruined, why wasn't the _other_ brake circuit (there are
two) working?

-- Jim
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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Fred Moir via Mercedes

Dwight.

Rarin' to go.

Fred


Fred Moir.
Lynn MA.
Diesel preferred.



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Subject: Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

Wow Fred. Glad you & your granddaughter  are,OK. So all set for the Q?

Dwight Giles Jr.
1982 300CD
1990 300D
Wickford RI

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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Curley McLain via Mercedes


Nice! 

Glad you and your are here to relate the tale.  Another reason why I 
prefer to do stuff like brakes myself.   I thought I was getting to old 
for this stuff too, but decided I can't afford the alternatives.


So, I bought a dewalt battry op rattle wrench.  The first job I applied 
it to, taking wheels off a junk car, completely overwhelmed it.  But it 
turned out that with me standing on the 18" breaker bar, and jumping on 
the breaker bar would not work either.  I did get 10 of the bolts loose 
by beating on the handle of the breaker bar with a 2 lb LFH as hard as I 
could.  About 20 to 40 whacks with this "impact wrench" would break 
loose a lug bolt.  Well over 300 Ft Lb.  It woulda stripped any rice 
burner lug nut. (or merkun)  However with several other jobs since then 
where bolts are near the torque spec, the thing works a charm.  I love 
it.  It works better than any of the air rattle renches I have had, and 
is no where near as temperamental.   (and does not require oil in the 
air hose end.



Fred Moir via Mercedes 
September 1, 2016 at 8:49 PM
Had an interesting morning on tuesday.

Tuesday is take-my-granddaughter-to-breakfast day and we were in 
traffic, going by the rehab hospital when the traffic stopped for a 
red light.


Why are we not slowing down, SH*T no brakes! Managed to avoid the car 
in front by swerving into the gutter and stomping on the (Bloody 
Awkward) emergency brake and stopped. Whew.


With almost no brake fluid and only minimal rear braking, crept to 
NAPA for juice and slowly down the street to breakfast. Crept home again.


The people that I normally use to do the repairs that I don't want to 
do recently replaced the passenger caliper, both disks and pads in the 
front.


It appears that the mechanic (moron) who replaced the caliper, 
unscrewed the unit from the hose and re-threaded the new caliper onto 
the old hose.


Then twisted the caliper to fit against the mounting lugs. This left a 
curl in the hose that rubbed against the tyre, and, e viola, no 
F**G brakes!


They will get a present of the hose from me as a learning aid. New 
hoses installed by Fred.


I got hosed, even though it was suggested that a new pair of hoses 
would be a good idea.


I'm getting too old for this sh*t.



Fred Moir.
Lynn MA.
Diesel preferred.
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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes

Wow Fred. Glad you & your granddaughter  are,OK. So all set for the Q?

Dwight Giles Jr.
1982 300CD
1990 300D
Wickford RI

On Sep 1, 2016 9:50 PM, "Fred Moir via Mercedes" 
wrote:

> Had an interesting morning on tuesday.
>
> Tuesday is take-my-granddaughter-to-breakfast day and we were in traffic,
> going by the rehab hospital when the traffic stopped for a red light.
>
> Why are we not slowing down, SH*T no brakes! Managed to avoid the car in
> front by swerving into the gutter and stomping on the (Bloody Awkward)
> emergency brake and stopped. Whew.
>
> With almost no brake fluid and only minimal rear braking, crept to NAPA
> for juice and slowly down the street to breakfast. Crept home again.
>
> The people that I normally use to do the repairs that I don't want to do
> recently replaced the passenger caliper, both disks and pads in the front.
>
> It appears that the mechanic (moron) who replaced the caliper, unscrewed
> the unit from the hose and re-threaded the new caliper onto the old hose.
>
> Then twisted the caliper to fit against the mounting lugs. This left a
> curl in the hose that rubbed against the tyre, and, e viola, no F**G
> brakes!
>
> They will get a present of the hose from me as a learning aid. New hoses
> installed by Fred.
>
> I got hosed, even though it was suggested that a new pair of hoses would
> be a good idea.
>
> I'm getting too old for this sh*t.
>
>
>
> Fred Moir.
> Lynn MA.
> Diesel preferred.
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[MBZ] Fwd: Re: Brakes! Brakes! bgaEqQ7NDu

2016-09-01 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes


> I used to do all my own work, except that which required special tools. 
> After a couple times of spending more time taking it to a specialist than I
> would have spent cobbling up a tool substitute and doing it myself, only to
> find
> that the specialist botched it far worse than I ever could have managed, I
> quit
> patronizing all but tire shops, and tire shops don't get to touch my cars,
> they
> only see my wheels. 
> 
> Mitch.

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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes

“You know, I bet there’s a lesson to be learned from all this.” - Sterling 
Archer


> On Sep 1, 2016, at 9:56 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes 
>  wrote:
> 
> Looser...
> 
> 
> On 9/1/16 9:52 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
>> Hoser...
>> 
>> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Fred Moir via 
>> Mercedes wrote:   Had an interesting morning on 
>> tuesday.
>> 
>> Tuesday is take-my-granddaughter-to-breakfast day and we were in traffic, 
>> going by the rehab hospital when the traffic stopped for a red light.
>> 
>> Why are we not slowing down, SH*T no brakes! Managed to avoid the car in 
>> front by swerving into the gutter and stomping on the (Bloody Awkward) 
>> emergency brake and stopped. Whew.
>> 
>> With almost no brake fluid and only minimal rear braking, crept to NAPA for 
>> juice and slowly down the street to breakfast. Crept home again.
>> 
>> The people that I normally use to do the repairs that I don't want to do 
>> recently replaced the passenger caliper, both disks and pads in the front.
>> 
>> It appears that the mechanic (moron) who replaced the caliper, unscrewed the 
>> unit from the hose and re-threaded the new caliper onto the old hose.
>> 
>> Then twisted the caliper to fit against the mounting lugs. This left a curl 
>> in the hose that rubbed against the tyre, and, e viola, no F**G brakes!
>> 
>> They will get a present of the hose from me as a learning aid. New hoses 
>> installed by Fred.
>> 
>> I got hosed, even though it was suggested that a new pair of hoses would be 
>> a good idea.
>> 
>> I'm getting too old for this sh*t.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Fred Moir.
>> Lynn MA.
>> Diesel preferred.
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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes

I usually figure if anybody is going to screw it up I might as well screw it up 
myself...

Curt

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  On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:55 PM, OK Don via Mercedes 
wrote:   As my father always said, "If you want something done right, do it
yourself."

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Fred Moir via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:

> Had an interesting morning on tuesday.
>
> Tuesday is take-my-granddaughter-to-breakfast day and we were in traffic,
> going by the rehab hospital when the traffic stopped for a red light.
>
> Why are we not slowing down, SH*T no brakes! Managed to avoid the car in
> front by swerving into the gutter and stomping on the (Bloody Awkward)
> emergency brake and stopped. Whew.
>
> With almost no brake fluid and only minimal rear braking, crept to NAPA
> for juice and slowly down the street to breakfast. Crept home again.
>
> The people that I normally use to do the repairs that I don't want to do
> recently replaced the passenger caliper, both disks and pads in the front.
>
> It appears that the mechanic (moron) who replaced the caliper, unscrewed
> the unit from the hose and re-threaded the new caliper onto the old hose.
>
> Then twisted the caliper to fit against the mounting lugs. This left a
> curl in the hose that rubbed against the tyre, and, e viola, no F**G
> brakes!
>
> They will get a present of the hose from me as a learning aid. New hoses
> installed by Fred.
>
> I got hosed, even though it was suggested that a new pair of hoses would
> be a good idea.
>
> I'm getting too old for this sh*t.
>
>
>
> Fred Moir.
> Lynn MA.
> Diesel preferred.
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Re: [MBZ] Brakes! Brakes!

2016-09-01 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes

Looser...

On 9/1/16 9:52 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:

Hoser...

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On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 6:49 PM, Fred Moir via Mercedes wrote: Had an interesting morning on tuesday.

Tuesday is take-my-granddaughter-to-breakfast day and we were in traffic, going
by the rehab hospital when the traffic stopped for a red light.

Why are we not slowing down, SH*T no brakes! Managed to avoid the car in front
by swerving into the gutter and stomping on the (Bloody Awkward) emergency
brake and stopped. Whew.

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