1984 Mercedes 300SD W126 - Front Suspension Rebuild - Part 6 

man you talk about american ingenuity,this guy is the real deal.

Man you saved my life with this series thank you, in completely redoing one of these cars for myself and had no information to help until this, definitely subscribing

Awesome video. Lower ball joint 126 Mercedes. I have an 85 380se in need of ball joints. You took the fear and mystery out of DIY.

Sir thank you so much for doing this and documenting the whole process. I'm doing a full front and rear suspension rebuild along with the brakes on my 560. I'm doing it mostly myself but had some parts taken apart or cleaned at a machine shop but I have to get all the bits installed. A shop quoted me 300 for the balljoints, even though the knuckle was cleaned and off the car and the old joints already beaten out!!!

The Moog ball joint is much easier to install as it doesn’t need removal of the boot. Avoids some of the struggle. This video series helped a ton!

Great video! I too, am rebuilding these old Mercedes. Thanks for putting this info out there.

Thank you master, It has been so useful for me. You have a new loyal subscriber from Spain :)

Exelente explicación,,,estoy siguiendo de cerca todos sus videos.. tengo Mercedes Benz w126 500se y lo voy a desarmar, sus video me ha aclarado muchas dudas gracias... Lo malo es las herramientas especiales para cambiar bujes tendré inventarme

When I saw the balljoint on my 85 300D was pressed in I took the assembly out and took it to the local MB shop and let them do it. I had no place and inadequate tools to do that. I saw you pry apart that spindle nut/clamp. Mine had no give to it and was very tight on the threads.

Thanks buddy, really helped.

Exelente comentery

Using that screwdriver next to the dust boot is almost like flirting with disaster. A less experienced person will most likely damage the boot. Also, getting the old ball joint out is supposed to be done with a heavier/bigger hammer and a larger drift. To press the new one in there is an expensive tool (made by Mercedes) and a cheaper solution (KTC part number A1036): a "pipe style" tool which comes as kit containing the punch too. I used it on LCAs from two cars and works perfectly. A very good thread on this, with excellent info, can be found at the 126board forum, in the 'How To', section, thread called "HOW-TO: Replacing W126 & C126 Front Lower Ball Joints".

Thank you so much for this video, I was able to do all this work with your help. The only thing I'm maybe missing is the information of the Torque Specifications, the manual is a little confusing for me, other than than everything went smooth, thank you...

Great job, i can't fint such tool for the same job with ball joint replacing

Great job.

very well done!!! but why did you spray the screw heads from the dust cover??? That doesn't really mean anything Greetings from the beautiful Black Forest. I also have a W123, you can watch it on my channel

great job, learned a lot, tnx

I don't think it's in all the way,man. Isn't the big "lip" on the ball joint supposed to recess into the steering knuckle. You also should "feel" the tool "bottom out". Nice channel, though.

Nice job, need a bigger drift/mandrel then you can wack out the old ball joint with a couple of hard wacks.

Hi, I am slowly going through all the videos on this car. Do you mind my asking what state you reside in? And what will you do with this lovely 300SD when it is finished? How I love that color combo. It's fantastic. I own an 85 500 SEC but do not wrench. I wish I could! :-) It would save some a lotta cash.

Video applicable to W123, W116 too

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Did you leave the spring in place? Do you have a video on the actual removal of the control arm?

Hi, I want to replace the lower ball joint on my W126, but I’m wanting to ask if I can do it without removing the coil spring?, I’m a little nervous about doing that,,,thanks,,

Where is part 5? Search didn't find it. Thanks

Those snap rings go off and on easily by just grabbing one end and wrapping or unwrapping it.

Air chisel????

I just went onto the KTC site, and practically all of their shit is out of stock.

Not looking forward to this job. Just did a full brake job and noticed one ball joint is bad. BTW I am still trying to wrap my brain around why the engineers made it so difficult to replace a caliper, particularly the brake hose. What a moronic way to have a hose attatch.