Re: [MBZ] W123 door check strap rebuild

2010-05-29 Thread Jim Cathey
Jim, I recall you have rebuilt the door check assemblies. I got one apart just fine but am not having much success getting the spring compressed with the steel balls on the ends and slide back into the track. That's hard to do. I seem to recall I've done a couple of things. Once I used a pipe

Re: [MBZ] W123 door check strap rebuild

2010-05-29 Thread Fmiser
> > Greg wrote: > > The only tricky part is keeping the return spring compressed > > during assembly. > Jim Cathey wrote: > > I stepped on mine, I think I had an appropriate piece of wood > under it. On the topic of trick compression... Jim, I recall you have rebuilt the door check assemblies.