[W126 Coupe] Emailing: 500 SEC 02.07

[Richard Hogarth]

If the rubber bushing causes the car's rear wheels to toe in upon
acceleration, are you concerned about rear wheel stability or are you
adjusting the rears for more toe in?
-RPH
 
From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com]
On Behalf Of Divov
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 12:51 AM
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Emailing: 500 SEC 02.07
 
I've put a liberal amount of copper-slip in the joint.
Looking at my oe part, there was a fair amount of rubber transferred on to
the antiroll bar. (lack of lubrication)
I haven't road tested the car with my mod as there is still a bit of
assembly outstanding but I am racing this 
week-end. My guess is that my mod may be a bit noisy for road use. A
urethane bush replacing the
oe rubber would probably be a better fix for a road car. The trick is going
to be to get someone to 
make up a batch... The easy way is replace the oe bushes with new ones and
apply rubber grease.
I am convinced these bushes do a critical job, more than just locating the
antiroll bar.
On many cars (Camaro etc) you can run them without an antiroll bar in place.
You most certainly can't do that on our cars.
Alec
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Richard Hogarth <mailto:R_Hogarth at Foundrycove.com>  
To: 'Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists' <mailto:mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com>  
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Emailing: 500 SEC 02.07
 
The mod looks great. 
How will you keep the aluminum billet lubricated?
Do you know if there are there any aftermarket urethane bushings available?
There is a company called "MetalRubber" in California that will re-rubber
any 
Metal to rubbler bonded pieces. I believe that they also work in urethane. 
I used them for  no longer available Saab part a couple of years back.
-RPH
 
 
From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com]
On Behalf Of Divov
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 4:23 AM
To: R_hogarth at foundrycove.com
Cc: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: [W126 Coupe] Emailing: 500 SEC 02.07
 
That's the oe rubber bush.
I shall try and send the modification by separate e-mail. (I'm too dumb to
combine the two!)
 
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