[W126 Coupe] Replacing spheres

[Markus Meyer]

Dan,

Sorry to hear of your troubles.  PB Blaster or the like may help in the
future better than WD40.  I learned that the hard way on another car once,
luckily I had a spare parts car so took the line off of there.

You can bleed it, but you don't have to.  Taking it for a ride seems to self
bleed it, just make sure you recheck the fluid level and keep it within the
range on the dipstick.

Markus

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Dan Gardner <cruftsk9 at tpg.com.au> wrote:


> Hi Folks

>   Thought I would tackle the spheres today,should be straight foward three

> nuts and two unions,so I thought, trouble is my car spent its early years in

> Hong Kong with its salt laden atmospere resulted in all the underbody

> hardware being corroded.

>   All the nuts were power wire brushed then WD40 for a few hours,after a

> lot of effort they finally came off as did the unions except for the small

> 11mm one underneath,despite using a quality flare wrench it was so tight it

> rounded off,I think the material MB uses is very soft.

> I then had to remove the sphere and the line together,managed to get the

> line off after putting the union in a big vice and rotating the sphere.

>   Still had the problem of the rounded union,found it easier and quicker to

> MIG weld the corners and reshape on a grinder,fits the wrench perfectly now

> and is harder on the corners.

>   One thing I forgot to mention was the bleed nipple on the switch

> assembly,after reassembly is the system supposed to be bled?I havnt seen any

> reference to that.

>

>                                                                       Kind

> Regards  Dan Gardner 1986 560 SEC Euro (220kw)

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