Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:23:18 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: fancy front wheel bearing nut with clamp
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lol.
i'm sure you might be familiar with 80's era mercedes cars.
if you ever work on them very much ..
and find out how incredibly they handle..
an 80's era Benz car can carve through a curve full of pot holes at 60 mph
..
and go exactly where you point it ....no matter what..
to the degree that nothing you could do with the brakes or throttle could
make it deviate from where you point it ..
that's in their safey/engineering handling ..
in their quality of construction ..
beleive me .
3 times as much quality german metal and careful solid construction goes
into building mercedes cars of that era. They are massively overbuilt even,
with exceptionally high quality materials.
the pistons in my 40 year old inline six gasoline 250 Sedan have about
300,000 miles on them...
no smoking, no knocking ...etc..
they are incredibly well made cars ..
last though ..
if you just drive one around ..
'sure...seems like an ok car' ..
I tell people...drive one across nevada at 100mph for a hours at a time..
and you'll start understanding that they are in a whole catagory of
engineering and quality that most cars don't come anywhere near.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alistair Bell" <albell@SHAW.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: fancy front wheel bearing nut with clamp
>I guess I don't understand the fuss, I am sure you can peen it at any
> position you want.
>
> And to Turbo Scott implying that MB does it the "right way", all I can
> say is pshaw.
>
> :)
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 21-Mar-11, at 6:18 PM, Edward Maglott wrote:
>
>> I searched my local archive too and found no reference to a part
>> number or a source to buy these. I see Bus Depot has the regular
>> peen style for $2.75. I guess $20 might get me a lifetime supply,
>> but they're still a pain to use compared to one that you could easily
>> lock in any position you want...
>> Edward
>>
>> At 01:13 PM 3/21/2011, Vern in Bend wrote:
>>> I can't find a post or the numbers, either, and the parts have no
>>> numbers on
>>> them. 'Sorry.
>>>
>>> But I did use 'IIRC'. . .
>>>
>>> Regards, Vern
>>>
>>>> And what would that MBZ part number be?
>>>>
>>>> A search of the archives was not successful in finding Karl's post
>>>> or
>>>> retrieving the MBZ part number.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:01:47 -0700, Vern in Bend <vernmcintosh@EONI.COM
>>>> >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> IIRC it was Karl Mullendore who posted about them, he included
>>>>> the MBZ
>>>>> part
>>>>> numbers.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Vern
>>>>>
>>>>>> you are thinking of a mercedes benz front wheel bearing securing
>>>>>> nut.
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