On 2/9/2014 9:01 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
Gorgeous day today, 60F+ so I got the boy's 300SD sorted and washed
and plated and it is back on the road for mama as the girl took her
300SD. Runs well, a few niggles to deal with.
I was doing some test ride to make sure it was running OK and went up
I compressed the pistons on both sides with a C-clamp, one side had
quite a bit of clearance when I put the new pads/rotor on, the other one
seemed compressed all the way (at least it would not go any further and
there was not much of the pistons showing) but was a really tight fit (I
had to
Yeah I was thinking that too, might be time for a new caliper after 14
years and 200k miles.
Yesterday was quite pleasant but more freezing stuff coming, so might
have to wait a few days until the Yankee weather leaves us again.
--R
On 2/9/14 6:45 PM, G Mann wrote:
I'm betting that wheel
that fat guy sure sells the right stuff!
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I was originally going to guess the cheap junk pads you'd bought cheap. I
got a set from Car Quest (the better quality, red maybe?) for the rears my
190D and they were thick,
-0500
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that fat guy
I was originally going to guess the cheap junk pads you'd bought cheap. I got a
set from Car Quest (the better quality, red maybe?) for the rears my 190D and
they were thick, took an awful long time for them to bed in. The last thing I
ever bought from Q was a set of front pads for that car,
to get the 240D going a certain fat man will get the parts order.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:48:08 -0500
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when its
time to get the 240D going a certain fat man will get the parts order.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:48:08 -0500
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MIGHT BE THE CALIPER NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
I compressed the pistons on both sides with a C-clamp, one side had
quite a bit of clearance when I put the new pads/rotor on, the other
one seemed compressed all the way (at least it would not go any
further and there was not much of the pistons
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that fat guy sure sells the right stuff
Gorgeous day today, 60F+ so I got the boy's 300SD sorted and washed and
plated and it is back on the road for mama as the girl took her 300SD.
Runs well, a few niggles to deal with.
I was doing some test ride to make sure it was running OK and went up
the road to a small shopping center and
I'm betting that wheel has a stuck/dragging caliper and that is why it was
metal to metal.. and where it's headed again...
Consider that. You may want to go back into that wheel for a rework..
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
Gorgeous
Gorgeous day today, 60F+ so I got the boy's 300SD sorted and washed
and plated and it is back on the road for mama as the girl took her
300SD. Runs well, a few niggles to deal with.
I was doing some test ride to make sure it was running OK and went
up the road to a small shopping center and
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