Spent the day working on the brake issues. PIA IT rained last night, so had to wallow in the wet putting the car on jack stands, removing the hard line, taking off the calipers, attempting to remove rotors.
The SEL line did go on, even though it was a bit off with a few angles. At the moment, there is still no fluid making it to the rear calipers. Old calipers were hard to convince to let go. I as able to BFH the driver side, but passenger side was a no go. My Crapsman impact tool was non function at the trigger. I tried al the wrenches. Pooped out, so hit a pawn shop to see what the prices were. Turned out they charge almost retail for used gear. So, I picked the low end HD impact hammer air tool. It did the trick. Rotors were less than willing to let go. Neither side would come off no matter the blows with a rubber mallet or the 4# BFH. They would loosen, but hung up on the parking brake bottoms. Screw it! I will come back to that when I can figure out how to get the top of the darn hoses loose. Anybody have a good idea? I put heat to them, Kroil, freeze stuff, there was an excess of slippage and the 11mm nut wanted to round. I stopped before I really did damage. I put the fresh built calipers on with the old hoses. I cracked the bleeder and filled the reservoir. Then, I pumped the stop pedal like a mad man for around 20 minutes. Nothing was coming out the far end. It was getting dark and there was not enough time to build a pressure bleeder. I did have a coke bottle that I tried to make a quick vac bleeder out of. It crushed. Instead of messing about more, I put everything away and went in for dinner. While cooking, I saw an old Nalgene bottle on the counter and decided that would be a better pressure vessel. I poke holes sized for the tubing, slipped them in, used some RTV to seal it, and will allow that to set up, then try to draw out the brake fluid in the morning clay 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei retired models- 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > On Oct 27, 2016, at 1:52 PM, clay via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > OK. > > I cut it beyond the points I needed. The front where it joins at a brass > fitting and at the rear junction with the side split. Cut beyond those point > on the excess side. I will unhook it from the unions and give it a good long > blast to clear any loogies, then hook it in where it belongs. Maybe I use > the dead one to make a few spares to put on the CL to recoupe my investment. > These silly things sell for mighty dollars > > clay _______________________________________ 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
