[W126 Coupe] chilling … and looking ahead

[Dick Spellman]

Gerry, funny what details can be left out.  As Mike suggests and I would
recommend, use a 4-point lift and it is a two man job coming down and going
back up!

-\Dick

On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Michael Ramay <mike.ramay at gmail.com> wrote:


> 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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