[W126 Coupe] accumulator question

[mramay at att.biz]

These don't fail often but there's a chance that the ones on the junkyard
dog might be acceptable for a short time. I personally would grab them as
they're easy to replace and it would give my car a decent ride while I'm
waiting for Jonathan to send me the new ones (only buy/replace in pairs).

Testing is easy - if a screwdriver can be inserted more than about 2-3"
into the larger hole, then the bladder is blown. You can look into the end
of a good one and see the metal center of the bladder being pushed up
against the outlet hole by the several thousand PSI nitrogen still inside.

Take care,
Mike R.
HOT Las Vegas

Original Message:
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From: Jonathan jhodgman at gmail.com
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:25:37 -0400
To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] accumulator question


Gary wrote:

> i found an 85 sec in the junk yard !   you never see sec's in 

> yard...anyhow  i went back a few days later to cannabilize and it was 

> already done.  so i'm just taking scraps now.  btw the engine 

> compartment is completely burned out. 

>  

> so regarding the accumulators how can i test to see if they are ok 

> after i remove them?

>  

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I wouldn't bother pulling accum's...  Installing used ones just doesn't 
make sense given the COE on new bits.

That aside, you can see pictures of good vs bad accums on my site under 
the 89 gray AMG coupe..

Jonathan


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