Maybe one of the pros will weigh in on this but here's what I found: I needed to remove all the brake stuff from the knuckle, I needed to pop the upper ball joint tapered shaft from the knuckle to swing the knuckle out enough to clear the tool that pops out the lower ball joint tapered shaft from the lower control arm). The knuckle needed to be removed completely and held inverted in a big vice to drive out the lower ball joint. The knuckle re-curves back over the centerline of the ball joint and this blocks pressing in the new BJ with anything simple. The "pipe" tool I bought/used was cut out in a way that lets the vertical part of the knuckle run inside the "pipe."
As I understand it, the c-clamp tool is used "inverted" such that the tapered post of the BJ goes through the hole in the "bottom" of the C-clamp with no adapters on that end. This requires removing the rubber grease boot to the clamp presses directly on the body of the BJ. Then you reinstall the rubber boot. A picture makes this clear but I don't have one. _______________________________________ 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 All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
