Sticky for 2001 E320 4Matic Wagon rear end overhaul
04-09-2021, 02:43 PM
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Sticky for 2001 E320 4Matic Wagon rear end overhaul
Does anyone have a sticky to a full rear end overhaul?
I finished my front end suspension, everything from the sway bar back has been replaced including new wheel bearings and even the trimmings, new brake dust plates. Tie-rods, uppers, new bushings in the lowers, all of it done. What a job and even popped a vertabrae squeezing out bushings at one point.
I'm about to do the rear end, samething, replace it all. The nitrogen ***** have just recently gone flunky, lost a crap of hydraulic fluid so this is good timing. Even emergency parking brakes will be replaced.
Anyone have a list of the parts I should be grabbing?
PS sneaky way to get those weird cap bushings out of the lower control arms? 70 dollar 3 ton three arm pulling jack from Harbor Frieght. It's tricky to get the three prongs of the arms onto the the three slotted openings on the control arm itself but it does! Place a bushing/bearing cap on the end of the jack plunger and your essentially using it in reverse by having the plunger push out the bushing. It literally pops the heck right out like a champagne cork.
I finished my front end suspension, everything from the sway bar back has been replaced including new wheel bearings and even the trimmings, new brake dust plates. Tie-rods, uppers, new bushings in the lowers, all of it done. What a job and even popped a vertabrae squeezing out bushings at one point.
I'm about to do the rear end, samething, replace it all. The nitrogen ***** have just recently gone flunky, lost a crap of hydraulic fluid so this is good timing. Even emergency parking brakes will be replaced.
Anyone have a list of the parts I should be grabbing?
PS sneaky way to get those weird cap bushings out of the lower control arms? 70 dollar 3 ton three arm pulling jack from Harbor Frieght. It's tricky to get the three prongs of the arms onto the the three slotted openings on the control arm itself but it does! Place a bushing/bearing cap on the end of the jack plunger and your essentially using it in reverse by having the plunger push out the bushing. It literally pops the heck right out like a champagne cork.
04-12-2021, 07:35 PM
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Hey Plutoe, I'm going with this:
Parking brakes, (my car followed me from Canada, I'm not expecting these to last being pulled out)
Dust shields,
Wheel bearings,
CV axles, (if boots are cracked)
Linkage,
SLS sphere's (just started sucking up hydraulic fluid)
SLS level shocks (if leaking)
I'd do the brake and hydraulic lines as well if I could spare the time but I'd have to put this car up a little longer than I can afford right now.
Parking brakes, (my car followed me from Canada, I'm not expecting these to last being pulled out)
Dust shields,
Wheel bearings,
CV axles, (if boots are cracked)
Linkage,
SLS sphere's (just started sucking up hydraulic fluid)
SLS level shocks (if leaking)
I'd do the brake and hydraulic lines as well if I could spare the time but I'd have to put this car up a little longer than I can afford right now.
