Re: [MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild?

2009-06-27 Thread Rolf Martin-Hoster
How can you test play when its not powered? -Rolf Jim Cathey wrote: Most folks just go down to the bone yard and buy a good used box for about $100. If you go to a do it yourself yard you may get one even cheaper and then you can test the play as well before pulling the box. Mine was $22 at

Re: [MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild?

2009-06-26 Thread Barry Stark
Rolf - I think it depends on why you want to rebuild the steering gear. If it is just leaking then you can replace most of the soft parts with pretty good results, but if you have excessive play, then it might be pretty tough to do a proper rebuild and get the clearances correct without having all

Re: [MBZ] W123/126 steerinb box rebuild?

2009-06-26 Thread Jim Cathey
Most folks just go down to the bone yard and buy a good used box for about $100. If you go to a do it yourself yard you may get one even cheaper and then you can test the play as well before pulling the box. Mine was $22 at the U-Pull. (But they took another $13 for the Pittman arm that I