07 S550: rear suspension bushings

[kevm14]

My man Kent has all the good ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joxk0L3qG-k

Bought a kit. Hopefully his tweaked press tool makes this easy.

[kevm14]

It's done!

Due to laziness, see my post on the MB forum: https://mbworld.org/forums/s-class-w221 ... iness.html

I will upload some shots at least.

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[kevm14]

Putting these here

[kevm14]

Decided to raise the car around 5mm (6mm in the front) to bring it more or less inline with what the dealer alignment machine claimed is acceptable, which is calculated via angles.

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Then I centered my steering wheel which was a bit of an adventure. The tie rods are right hand thread but I still managed to turn the right one the wrong way. Classic! So the first go round was a 1/4 turn longer on the left and what was SUPPOSED to be a 1/4 turn shorter on the right. But what I actually did was a 1/4 turn longer on the right, which effectively added toe-out. Of course, before I realized this, the road test actually showed good results. The only explanation I have for this is that I didn't get them exactly the same so I still ended up with some correction.

Came back, and turned the right one 180 degrees the other way to match the left side. So now I have what I originally thought I had - 1/4 turn on both sides to correct for the steering wheel being off to the left. Well, now it was off to the right. Sigh.

So I went back and split the difference; 1/8th turn on both sides. This proved successful. Thankfully! Even this small difference was well worth it, FWIW. Not everyone would agree but it's my car, my rules. And I'm picky (and willing to do extra work to satisfy my pickiness).

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Finally, I adjusted my headlights after playing with ride height again.

Adjust all the things!!!

Good to go now I think. Sweet. Car drives awesome.