Re: [MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild?

2009-06-27 Thread Rolf Martin-Hoster
How can you test play when its not powered? -Rolf Jim Cathey wrote: Most folks just go down to the bone yard and buy a good used box for about $100. If you go to a "do it yourself" yard you may get one even cheaper and then you can test the play as well before pulling the box. Mine was $22 at

Re: [MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild?

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Cathey
Most folks just go down to the bone yard and buy a good used box for about $100. If you go to a "do it yourself" yard you may get one even cheaper and then you can test the play as well before pulling the box. Mine was $22 at the U-Pull. (But they took another $13 for the Pittman arm that I was

Re: [MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild?

2009-06-26 Thread Barry Stark
iday, June 26, 2009 7:04 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: [MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild? Also anyone rebuilt a steering box before? Suggestions? Recommendations? Hints? I have seen the DIY floating around. Doesn't look horribly difficult if you are careful. I have 2 in the cars

[MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild?

2009-06-26 Thread winmutt
Also anyone rebuilt a steering box before? Suggestions? Recommendations? Hints? I have seen the DIY floating around. Doesn't look horribly difficult if you are careful. I have 2 in the cars that need to be rebuild and 1 123 and 1 126 that I planned on selling afterwards. For the price they char