[W126 Coupe] chilling … and looking ahead

[Michael Ramay]

No special tools, but the nuts on the drive shaft are pretty bit. A lift
makes this much easier:

   - Remove the bolts that hold the aluminum plate in place over the center
   bearing, and the two nuts on the rear of the plate.
   - Mark the drive shaft at the splines so you can get it back together
   properly
   - Pull the six bolts holding each flex disk in place.
   - Remove the two bolts holding the center bearing in place, which will
   drop the center of the drive shaft, which will let one end of the drive
   shaft disengage from the stub out of the tranny or diff.
   - loosen the big nuts on the drive shaft so that the front and rear half
   can be separated, freeing the center bearing assembly.


Kinda like that.




On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Gerry Van Zandt <gerryvz at me.com> wrote:


> Whodathunk that an aborted attempt to modernise the e-mail list & letting

> folks know about a small SEC-focused web forum I created many months ago

> would result in such a brouhaha.  Thanks for the kind words Ernie.

>

> Yes it did energize things, and that's not such a bad thing.

>

> And now a question … has anyone ever had to replace a drive shaft center

> support bearing?  If so, how difficult of a job is it?  Are any special

> tools required?

>

> Now that it looks like we've turned the corner from daily 100+ degree temps

> here in Houston, down to the low-mid 90s, I can start to attack the backlog

> of MB-related projects I've been accumulating since May.

>

> Thanks

> Gerry

>

>

> On Sep 3, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Ernie wrote:

>

>

> PS: Gerry, new list or not, thanks for energizing the group and

> contributing all that you do.

>

>

>

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Mike Ramay
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