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Old Jul 1, 2017 | 10:51 AM
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What is this?

Any idea what this thing is that my inner wheel barely clears?
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Old Jul 1, 2017 | 11:40 AM
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Flux capacitor?
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Old Jul 1, 2017 | 01:55 PM
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Ha! Send a PM to member ALX. He's an MB tech who's mostly on the W221 forum.
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Old Jul 1, 2017 | 09:09 PM
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Flux capacitor?
wow, talk about a bad joke
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Old Jul 1, 2017 | 10:08 PM
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And your answer is....?
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Old Jul 1, 2017 | 11:51 PM
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I'm just sayin....
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Old Jul 2, 2017 | 12:38 AM
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Hard to tell as you're pic is super close and hard to get a reference where everything is. But I'd guess it's a tie rod end?
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Old Jul 2, 2017 | 12:40 AM
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Originally Posted by sean1.8t
Hard to tell as you're pic is super close and hard to get a reference where everything is. But I'd guess it's a tie rod end?
But now that I look at it you seem to be pointing upwards as that's the shock absorber just to the right so tie rod wouldn't make sense. So I have no idea.

I'm gonna 2nd "flux capacitor"
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Looks like the sway bar end link.
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Yep, it's the sway bar link end. Rummy for the win! Thanks guys!
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