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stripped ball joint stud / twisted boot / spinning shaft
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kulcousy
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May 25, 2019, 9:21 PM
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Re: stripped ball joint stud (new install)
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Tom Greenleaf
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May 26, 2019, 3:37 AM
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RE site issues: I can't help that it goes funky on most of us. Note it will say "error" this or that but your post really went thru? You are doing better at just that than I am!
This car and the issue: You must know these cars and several others are both unreal designs and different in their own way many times. Each can have unique parts if just because they were and are sold all over the world each with slight changes that alter the whole show. A PITA for parts look ups then a pest too doing many things took tools just for them not used on anything else become a specialty of their own.
Even the most basic anything out there it's just habit and a problem for myself to save all old parts till the problem is 100% known done and fixed so I have that to go by at least which is lost for this is double troubles. For me personally it makes a wild mess of a shop!
Suspension and steering parts: Close isn't enough, perfect is. A couple degrees of angle (geometry) of things throw it off sometimes fractions of degrees! OMG, if you see it than it's just totally wrong. It's shocking what shows up when you think you are totally finished, go for the final alignment to find it's out of range to adjust a thing into spec. One item is off throws of adjustment of others in sequence.
Just FYI on how sensitive final alignment is even brand of tire, pressure in tire plus the wear on each if not precise the job is at best just close enough so that sensitive.
For the fix of this it's gone beyond what I have access to now not so certain the info is well archived from MB (Benz) itself? It is just where and who has it?
The job now for you is really to find the right info on the car you have, any details back to where it was made and for where it would be sold usually a VIN #, the one seen thru windshield even 1982 is this car when new. Then who has the parts made of the right metals, rubber and plastics unfortunately (IMO) get cloned because the real ones are insanely costly.
In short I'm struggling for just parts never mind how you do it is bring me to an end with this.
I think if nothing else I found the exact model of this you listed, "Mercedes Benz, 300d" was NOT sold to the US directly as new? Many models are here came privately, I do know that and see some still.
Doesn't totally matter but my area is MetroWest is an unclear area of suburbs cities or towns west of Boston is or was a huge area for importing vehicles domestic or otherwise. Still does just no way the hot spot for that anymore?
Good luck John, please let me know if I missed something and if you think I can help the issue now is parts that just are not right,
Tom
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Hammer Time
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May 28, 2019, 3:46 AM
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Tom, The 300D (diesel) was sold all over the US.
OP, I deleted one of your pictures as it was way too big. You can resize it if you want to repost it.
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Tom Greenleaf
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May 28, 2019, 4:13 AM
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Yes it was Hammer. The 5 cyl. diesel in a few versions of car. I got totally lost looking up parts all over the place different stuff totally and I didn't see or find how "model" dependent that was remains unknown. This thing was acquired all wrong so what was OE if that was is lost info.
Go look how many variables there were simply adding a letter to this thing's name! One I messed other things once with this old was a 300 TD also said "Turbo Diesel" then (friends) moved totally real soon no clue after that?
I plain can't help with this one not knowing what it was somehow think the backwards control arms/joints didn't belong to this car at all so what was there?
Lost - we just don't know bet OP doesn't either could be a killer snag to move on,
Tom
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kulcousy
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May 28, 2019, 9:29 PM
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Thanks Tom And Hammer,
The car has been on the shelf for several weeks now and so have i as a result. On the bright side it has been pleasurable dealing with you guys and getting an education in mechanicking. I never dreamed I would run in to so many little problems. It's a good thing I didn't know before or my education would never have happened. The latest is I cant get the knuckle-o-tie rod arm to line up. Did I accidentally spin it 360 and shorten the tie rods? I hope that's it.
The questionable new UCA geometrically matches the worn out one which came with a stamped part number so I'm going to go with it.
Tom, I'm sorry about the confusion over the model numbers. Parts catalogues often list the 81+ later model 300D as 300DT instead. The 300 TD is the wagon
This was my opportunity to rectify the less than ideal highway handling and poor grip in wet conditions of the MB which existed in the 3 years I've had it. Oh well. We'll see about that.
Thanks for all your advice.
John
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