I have wonderings about oldest boys. Dads know how to make car things better, but end up not getting ear time. #1 boy put his w140 out of commission, so SWMBA decided his car was evil and he needed a “better” car. Benz is bad. The solution is to purchase a “benz” built Jeep for mucho dollars.
Now #1 boy does no inspections or updates on his “new” car, just drives it, as if it is blessed and perfect because SWMBA had her way. Instead, the jeep was not taken car of by PO, and it dies after driving from ND to SEA. I haul his butt to ND in a 30 year old Benz. Then I drive his 10 year old benz built Jeep to ND, and my 30 year old Evil car back another 1252 miles. SWMBA foots the repair bill for the jeep. Flash to two days ago. Oldest boy calls to find out if he can make a fix because he was not holding the door in 50 MPH gales and the driver door went sproing! as it tried to become a wing instead of a door. Now it does not align properly and all is sad. I told him to get an estimate from a body shop. Which was really expensive, so he should just use BFH to smack the metal back to a manner that will allow the door to fit right once again. A bit of a hillbilly fix, but cheaper than asking SWMBA for more cash. Had the boy just spent a few grand to make the w140 roll again, it would have been so much more economical. All it needs to run properly is a fresh wire harness instead of the biodegradable original and toss in the dang head gasket, which would deal with leakage. And, have a shop build him a replacement radiator for the one -40 made bad. <end rant> > On Mar 10, 2017, at 5:50 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Why do we need to hand anything over to the oldest boy? What is the oldest > boy driving now? > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Mar 10, 2017, at 7:31 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> SWMBO is of the opinion I need to make the 300SEL fit for handing over to >> the oldest boy. While I’m far from keen about this, as we all know a wise >> man picks his battles carefully. >> >> Anyway, my feeling is that if this is to be, the front end needs to be >> rebuilt before handing it over. This serves two purposes: >> >> 1.) To make the car pretty much 100% as far as front suspension, as the >> boots on all the joints are gone and it’s a little noisy at times. >> >> 2.) I have never rebuilt the front suspension on ANY Mercedes, so this would >> be a good opportunity to do so with the blessings of the spouse. >> >> I’ll be researching this on the Interwebs, but of course any observations, >> suggestions or experience that people might want to share would be most >> welcome. I am assuming I need to replace: >> >> Upper control arms >> Lower ball joints >> Lower control arm bushings >> >> The guide rods have been changed and look good and are tight, so those >> should be OK. Do I need to worry about the guide rod bushings/mounts? How >> much of a nightmare is removing the ball joints? Should I have a shop press >> the new ones in as well as the LCA bushings? I don’t need a spring >> compressor as I recall - I can just separate the lower ball joint and lower >> the arm to release the spring, correct? >> >> I figure I can learn how to do this on the 300SEL and then when the time >> comes to do the 350SDL it will be that much easier. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -D _______________________________________ 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
