I'm finishing up the long overdue process of replacing my w111's front end rubber and inspecting the suspension pivots. My question is, how much play should there be in these hard control arm pivots? In other words the:

(per side)
2 lower inner bearing cup/threaded shaft pivots
2 upper inner bearing cup/threaded shaft pivots
lower outer threaded screw/knuckle pivot
lower outer knuckle/kingpin pivot
upper outer kingpin/threaded screw/camber eccentric pivot

This last part troubles me as well. I bent my upper control arm tangs out a little bit by screwing the frozen eccentric around before I resorted to sawzalling it off (which worked like a charm BTW). Will these tangs just bend back together when I install the new one or should I just get a new upper arm? My fear is more that my castor alignment could be off front to rear more than the arm might actually be weakened. We're talking less than a half inch between the two here. Still, I'd hate to get this all done and have rotten alignment specs due to this.

I have a brand new upper camber eccentric "kit" with the threaded screw and a new lower knuckle kit with the screw and it still seems to have a little play in it. I bought solely these parts before the whole ball of wax just so I'd have a basis to compare my other joints with. How do you know when a little is too much?

Lastly, My kingpins appear to be solid and have very little play, I'd say just the right amount. It was mostly the outer threaded bolts I mentioned above with undue play. If I disassemble my kingpins in order to clean out ancient hardened grease/etc, would it be okay to simply re-grease and re-assemeble them as-is?

TIA!

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1967 230S automatic
Boston, MA