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Mjharris526

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    Well I bought her two years ago for 850 dollars from the 2nd owner. 234,000 miles on her. Basically I built my stereo system first but that's complete im finishing the front suspension and replacing Basically everything except the steering column.Im putting in the poly urethane bushings. Im putting the front back together and aligned during my lunch break and after my shift on Wed. Well today. That's a nice thing about working car dealership. The racks and helpful co workers have helped get her fixed. I didn't very about wrenching till this job. The rear suspension ill have to do next week. Front was bad.
  • Mechanical Skill Level
    Wrench And Socket Set Mechanic
  • Your Age
    36-40
  • What do you consider yourself?
    I Go When I Can
  • Model
    XE
  • Year
    1995

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    Washington
  • Country
    United States

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  1. Hi I'm pretty new to even just using social media so I've never really liked using computers so basically long story short I'm way behind my peers in life due to previous poor life choices. Way past all that now. Point I wish to make is my 95 was swaying and the front passenger wheel on freeway felt like it was going to fall off. I work at Mercedes Benz of Seattle and going on 3rd year. I dont know very much about auto repair so I basically dove in to get everything for front end. I ordered and replaced all the main suspension bushings poly's. Only things I didn't touch up front was the steering box n column and the diff. So over 40 hours of grueling torture ? and almost turning into a nightmare disaster I barely finished without havin a nervous breakdown. I have no sway issues anymore. Wheel is still acting like not 100. Everything I learned went through researched and kept doing till I got all errors ran through to understand well ok. This is down to my diff now.Those auto locking hubs were destroyed inside which everything else eliminated has to be diff. Not sure how long these thing's are supposed to be ( comments) so back to point. Most of my finished work is acceptable. I'm very o.c.d about thing's. So That clanging noise I have sounds like it may be similar. I know almost certainly that my clanging sounds are from lack of experience and didn't have book or torque specs so now I know my upper and lower control arm bolts to spindle ( knuckle are very loose. Which to fix appears from manual I have to go back in disconnect and remove axles at least unbolt them from diff to give me enough space to actually get the 22 mm socket on the bolt to successfully tighten.. I didn't want to over tighten and completely had no knowledge of proper procedures.. Also the inside bolt of upper arm is almost impossible to torque due to a brake line welded in the way .. I am very upset about this and took my bottle neck jack to the mofo and started applying caveman techniques to almost bust it off. The darn thing only bent slightly. So that will have to be an open end rench tighten close to spec. Once I complete this month long repair I'll update my results. In short it appears loose in hardware bolts appears to be the clanging sounds not shocks. It may sound elementary but just go through and verify bolts tightness for anyone going through this. On the real though I'm very fortunate to have had lots of help throughout this and a lift. I don't recommend anyone without any experience try to dive in as how I did. I literally had no other better options. I tried to get financed for an auto loan with 2400 down and a medical collections bill stopped that so I bought all par t z and kits that I could. Pleaese be very careful with the torsion bars. Like those tapered bolts around 2 or three steps before or after u remove bars a r e very difficult to replace.
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