Re: [MBZ] Guts of a Turbo 617 oil pump.

2011-04-13 Thread OK Don
The rear brakes locked on my son's '87 300D once, cooking the rear calipers. Being cheap, we ordered rebuild kits from Rusty in the opes that the calipers were still usable. We were able to rebuild them without splitting them - just pry out the pistons and seals, clean, put the new seals on, and re

Re: [MBZ] Guts of a Turbo 617 oil pump.

2011-04-13 Thread Mountain Man
Walt wrote: > In case anyone is interested, I tore down my new (to me) turbo 617 oil pump > today, cleaned it up, and got a shot of the internals. Has anyone here ever rebuilt an ATE rear brake cylinder? I thought I have heard that rebuilds are tough to do - sealing surfaces or somesuch. But, may

Re: [MBZ] Guts of a Turbo 617 oil pump.

2011-04-13 Thread andrew strasfogel
Makes me want ot use it as a soup bowl - it's that clean! On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Walt Zarnoch wrote: > In case anyone is interested, I tore down my new (to me) turbo 617 oil pump > today, cleaned it up, and got a shot of the internals. > > http://zarnochwf1.com/gallery2/v/V6_Truck/IMG

[MBZ] Guts of a Turbo 617 oil pump.

2011-04-12 Thread Walt Zarnoch
In case anyone is interested, I tore down my new (to me) turbo 617 oil pump today, cleaned it up, and got a shot of the internals. http://zarnochwf1.com/gallery2/v/V6_Truck/IMG_20110412_114515.jpg.html Really great engineering, the gears end up fully floating on a film of oil when operating, so t