I agree such a joy to drive a well sorted car.

Great I'm so glad you're enjoying the videos

Thank you for the kind words. I recommend looking on eBay to see if you can find an om617 non-turbo engine manual. eBay is a great source for original factory documentation.

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Yeah you cannot overtighten the bearing ;)

Yeah I hear what you're saying but all staring boxes wear out with high mileage. It's pretty easy to find good used steering boxes if yours is worn out. There are even services that rebuild them. They made hundreds of thousands of these vehicles so there is no shortage of parts.

I'm sorry I don't have any experience with the 200 sedan.

Yes I think the parts are the same quality. The parts that you're talking about are just suspension joints and rubber. As long as you order from a reputable manufacturer it's kind of hard to mess those up. No complex engineering going on here. Just stick with the big OEM name brands. Also keep in mind that Mercedes never made parts. Mercedes designed cars and assembled the parts. The parts were made buy other companies. So when anyone tells you that you have to buy genuine Mercedes parts just remember that. Mercedes never made parts. Mercedes outsourced all of their parts manufacturing to companies like Bosch, lemforder, VDO, hella, stabilis, Bilstein, etc. now there are some situations where you have to buy parts from Mercedes because the OEM suppliers do not sell to the retail Market. For example an SLS leveling valve has to be purchased from Mercedes because we don't know who manufactures that part and we are not able to buy that part from the manufacturer. The one thing that I do notice that was better 40 years ago is rubber. Modern rubber is not the same quality as the rubber 40 years ago. Anyway I hope I answered your question.

I usually donate the calipers to other shops that my buddies own and they rebuild them and use them. I only like brand new calipers on my cars ;)

I see you like everything fresh and new, i wish I had access to your left over "old" parts for my car that's for sure

Of course everybody knows Uncle Kent

@@woodsandbarclay he’s the best there is when it comes to finding parts for and fixing these older Mercedes-Benz

@@mds2465 I don't think I would go that far but yes he is a very knowledgeable mechanic.

@@woodsandbarclay well I don’t know if and say that, but I’ll give him a lot of credit because he’s even gone so far as to manufacture his own tools that are designed for specific purposes to enable others to complete repair procedures when Mercedes has either discontinued, the production of such special tools or simply hasn’t manufactured anything that’s quite up to par for such specific tasks.

@@mds2465 yeah Kent makes some really cool tools I actually own a couple of them.

Depends on what part you're talking about. But we typically don't install refurbished parts on our cars we always install brand new parts. There are certain parts that you can rebuild and refurbish like axles or self leveling valves or rear hydraulic struts. But like I said we normally don't install refurbished parts on our cars. what parts are you talking about in particular? There's nothing on the front suspension of one of these cars that can be refurbished once it wears out it goes in the trash. Yes you can rebuild brake calipers but I prefer to install brand new ones since they are available from the OEM suppliers.