Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Anyone have the part number for the 123 striker? Seems I have a bad one now. fmiser via Mercedes February 23, 2017 at 11:04 PM Dan wrote: The driver’s door on my 350SDL has been having a hard time latching - that is, I have to slam it to get it to close

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Yep, and a 2 lb hammer makes em work good, and helps to loosen the screw. OK Don via Mercedes February 26, 2017 at 7:49 PM What Rick said - those work great for Phillips head screws, as the hammer drives the bit into the slot while banging and turning it. Highly

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

What Rick said - those work great for Phillips head screws, as the hammer drives the bit into the slot while banging and turning it. Highly recommended for this application. On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I have used a hand impact,

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

That's where the big difference between the hand impact and the air or electric guns comes in. With the hand impact every time you hit with the hammer the bit is forced into the screw head and that alone will make it hold onto the screw much better. those things were a required tool for

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Curly sez: ‎>For not a lot more, you can get a dewalt >battery impact or an air impact wrench. Yes, but... if it has started to round out, an electric impact will make quick work of finishing the job. There are hand impacts less than fifteen bucks. I just picked the first in the list. Rick

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

For not a lot more, you can get a dewalt battery impact or an air impact wrench. Impact wrench is the way to go. I've beat on the hand impact wrenches. In the 60s and 70s, if you had a hondog motorsickle, the hand impact and a 2 lb hammer were the first 2 tools you needed. Hondogs and a

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Oh yeah I forgot about that one. That works good. Manfred Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: I have used a hand impact, with a 6mm impact socket on a 123. I assume they are similar to the 126.

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Kroil for a while then pop the screw heads a good lick or two with a hammer and try again to loosen them. Rinse and repeat and if not you could also put the hex driver in and hit that good and hard with a hammer. sooner or later it should come loose. Worse comes to worse just drill out the

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

I have used a hand impact, with a 6mm impact socket on a 123. I assume they are similar to the 126. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002NYDRG/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1488147504sr=8-1pi=SL75_QL70keywords=hand+impact+driver Rick   Original Message   ___

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Get replacements on hand and drill the old ones out. They’re stupidly soft for some weird reason. My driver’s door strike can loose without effort, but in the interim I was going to swap the rear onto the driver’s door until the replacement came. The rear door bolts all tried to round off,

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

I tried to replace the driver's door striker on my 82 SD (same symptoms and cause) but I Couldn't get the screws lose. I had started to deform the hex socket in some of the screws so I quit before I really buggered them. Is there a trick to this? ___

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

As I mentioned in a later post, the little plastic tab on the bottom was missing. This appears to trigger the latch to “grab” and close, hence the having to slam the door to get it to latch. I replaced the strike with the new one before I left for work yesterday. Took all of about two

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

> Dan wrote: > The driver’s door on my 350SDL has been having a hard time > latching - that is, I have to slam it to get it to close > completely. Is it the same as a 123? I have had many fail. The symptom is it take a harder, and harder slam to get it to latch. > I’m wondering if the strike

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

A work-around that worked for me is this: Instead of just giving the open door a shove, keep a hold of the handle and put some "close" pressure on the door just as it closes. It sounds funky but it's better than multiple slams. > -Original Message- > From: Dan Penoff via Mercedes >

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Sounds to me like that death trap is going down hill fast, time to dump it and get out before it sucks you dry. I'll give you $1000. - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Got a look at it before we left to get the 300SEL. The little plastic thingy on the bottom is broken off. Thanks, Gerry! (I think you were the one that suggested this was the issue?) -D > On Feb 21, 2017, at 9:04 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > It’s dry and

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

It’s dry and there’s no lubricant on it, at least not in the way of grease. -D > On Feb 21, 2017, at 9:03 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes > wrote: > > latch is gummed up with that white lithium crap. Real fix is to take it out > and take it apart and clean it, then

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

latch is gummed up with that white lithium crap. Real fix is to take it out and take it apart and clean it, then grease with molykote BR2. Practical fix is to spray the snot out of it with contact cleaner, brake cleaner, carb cleaner, etc. and work the snot out of it. Then spray in some

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Save your bad strikers, and if I come up with a fix I'll post it. The new ones I've bought don't last very long. ~ > Yeah, my googling suggests that the little plastic piece on the bottom of the > strike is either worn or broken off. I haven’t

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

I had that problem on my W123 and found debris was in the female latch component in the door frame. IOW, the door has a Pin and the frame as a place for the pin to fit. I cleaned it and the door worked grear. LarryT On 02/21/2017 7:16 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: The driver’s door

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

Yeah, my googling suggests that the little plastic piece on the bottom of the strike is either worn or broken off. I haven’t looked at it closely but will later this morning. The part is NLA from Mercedes so I ordered one from Amazon that’s made by Meyle. Not ideal, but they appear to be the

Re: [MBZ] W126 Door Latch

On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 07:16:53 -0500 Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: > The driver’s door on my 350SDL has been having a hard time latching - that > is, I have to slam it to get it to close completely. > > This just started a few days ago, and there’s nothing that’s happened