My sicka$$ front strut bar
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99CLK320,
A bit hard to see but it looks like the box is wedged ahead of the bar spacer and the tension of the cables are pulling it back against the spacer? did you secure it by drilling two new holes?
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there is no tension on the box from the cables!
furthermore, i didn't secure it to anything as it has no place to go
I have owned this car for a long time and have never used that box to jump the car!
furthermore, i didn't secure it to anything as it has no place to go
I have owned this car for a long time and have never used that box to jump the car!
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99CLK320,
front strut bar update
mounting the front strut bar today and had a couple of pics to post. I have the new spacer vipclk320 made and hopefully the pic attached. the throttle body thingie was too high for the bar to clear so I cut the bolts off flush with the bracket that it was mounted to, drilled out the holes(can be tricky so make sure you scribe a starting point to drill), then mounted the throttle from the underside of the bracket on the fire wall using three washers to space it down. Voila!
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mounting the front strut bar today and had a couple of pics to post. I have the new spacer vipclk320 made and hopefully the pic attached. the throttle body thingie was too high for the bar to clear so I cut the bolts off flush with the bracket that it was mounted to, drilled out the holes(can be tricky so make sure you scribe a starting point to drill), then mounted the throttle from the underside of the bracket on the fire wall using three washers to space it down. Voila!
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99CLK320,
Up one hole?
I'm not sure what you mean by moving it up one hole Ash. if you mean move it to the right, the electrical connection hit the brake fluid resivoir and it wouldn't work. see the right side of the second picture. there was not enough room for it to fit. I would like to see a close up pic of what you are talking about so I understand cuz I probably missed something. Thanks!
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I'm not sure what you mean by moving it up one hole Ash. if you mean move it to the right, the electrical connection hit the brake fluid resivoir and it wouldn't work. see the right side of the second picture. there was not enough room for it to fit. I would like to see a close up pic of what you are talking about so I understand cuz I probably missed something. Thanks!
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I'm not sure what you mean by moving it up one hole Ash. if you mean move it to the right, the electrical connection hit the brake fluid resivoir and it wouldn't work. see the right side of the second picture. there was not enough room for it to fit. I would like to see a close up pic of what you are talking about so I understand cuz I probably missed something. Thanks!
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99CLK320,
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I did check your pic and had a print out of it when I did my install. A and B the your pic and my pic. It looks like the bracket on my car is in a different place than on yours or perhaps it is shaped differently. Anyway, I really tried to mount the throttle thingie as you did but it wouldn't fit. there just wasn't room against the brake fluid resevoir. My method worked but I just trying to understand how y'all did what you did. it's all good. Thanks y'all.
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I did check your pic and had a print out of it when I did my install. A and B the your pic and my pic. It looks like the bracket on my car is in a different place than on yours or perhaps it is shaped differently. Anyway, I really tried to mount the throttle thingie as you did but it wouldn't fit. there just wasn't room against the brake fluid resevoir. My method worked but I just trying to understand how y'all did what you did. it's all good. Thanks y'all.
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thanks for the kudos guys. I hope it works for you too. I have no physics nor mechanical training but when I can see something the inspiritation just comes to me and I know how to make it work . it was probably just a flashback or something from the 70s. just make sure that if you do try my approach, once you have cut the bolts off the bracket that the throttle thingie mounts to make sure you scribe or mark the starting drill point well enough or deep enough so the drill bit has a starting point. you will be drilling a harder steel than the bracket around it. if you don't, the drill bit will dance around and you won't be able to center the new hole. Capish? Etiendo?