Why did those brilliant Germans not put a simple grease fitting on the upper control arm? It is beyond me. Even my riding lawn tractor has grease fittings in all the right places, but then again it is a piece of engineering from years gone by. It is older than my Mercedes.

Well, no grease fitting? No problem. My wife is minus one turkey flavor injector syringe in her kitchen. I put some electrical tape over the upper hole on the needle and left the lower one open. I took my grease gun and filled the lower half with red grease and poked that sucker right into the rubber grease cup on the upper control arm and filled her up!!!

Can I use it on my turkey next Thanksgiving? Wonder what that red grease will taste like . . . hmmm. I might just give ol' Emril a run for his money! A new moist Turkey recipee!

Maybe this will buy me some time till I can fix it the right way.

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1982 300SD Light Blue
2002 Honda Accord SE
1974 Toro Wheel Horse Tractor
2000 Toyota Tundra Pickup

I bought a tool years ago, looks like a hypo/needle with a zirc fitting on one end, it goes into the end of the grease gun and makes it into a Mercedes baster. Great tool and cheap. Used it to put fresh CV grease into several noisy CV joints, very successfully.

- Jeff Miller
190DT

willrev.....the home of the new white castle turkey slider

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currently
[1981 300 td tdidi 165500 dark brown/palamino-Brownie-mine-3k miles of ownership
1983 240d 162+++ Anthricite grey w/ henna red interior and hella lights-wifes car-Red

the above two cars are for sale
and can be seen on the cars for sale thread here. pix also available.


240d-144+ Manilla Yellow w/ palmino interior-greasecar kit-Blondie-the college kids car

23" gt 21 speed still on original tires-still got the nubs
21" khs tandem

Make sure she doesn't try get pregnant with it like someone did with a turkey baster.

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01 Ford Excursion Powerstroke
99 E300 Turbodiesel
91 Vette with 383 motor
05 Polaris Sportsman 800 EFI
06 Polaris Sportsman 500 EFI
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Red
03 SeaDoo GTX SC Yellow
04 Tailgator 21 ft Toy Hauler
11 Harley Davidson 883 SuperLow

Like this:

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1986 190D, 2.5L, 5-speed swap, 180,000 Miles (60K by me).
Jeep CJ-7 with Cummins 4BT/NV4500/AtlastII 4.3.
Grand Wagoneer 4BT project in progress!

Where can I get one of those tools???

Drove the car to a parking lot and did serveral sharp circles both directions. Noise is completely Gone.

I also took a can of silicone spray and there is a small hole on the lower front end where the caster adjustment is and poked the red spray straw through the hole and loaded up both sides on silicone.

Again - no more noise stopping or turning.

Amazing what lubrication can do.

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1982 300SD Light Blue
2002 Honda Accord SE
1974 Toro Wheel Horse Tractor
2000 Toyota Tundra Pickup

Try your local autoparts store.....I've seen them at a few places. And yes its one of those things I never got around to buying but should have.

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1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

That's the one!!

Inspired by Will's post, I injected my LBJs with a little Moly grease today, and am a little surprised. Out for a drive on the highway, I'm sure it's not my imagination, it seems like the little jarring bumps like expansion strips are smoother. Hmm, maybe I should inject the CV joints too as they're close to 20years old.

- Jeff Miller
190DT

Dude thats funny!

I decided to go ahead and inject the other upper control arm with grease also even though it has given no problems. I usually hate riding on Interstate 95 because of the concrete expansion joints in the road.

Tonight on the way home, I never felt the first one. I can only imagine what a front end rebuild would do for the ride of the car.

I replaced everything on the rear end - shocks, sub frame bushings, springs, differential mount. Tranny mount was good.

That grease in both upper control arm ball joints did wonders. Laugh if you want to.

I cannot wait to see what the car would feel like with all new bushings in the front end!

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1982 300SD Light Blue
2002 Honda Accord SE
1974 Toro Wheel Horse Tractor
2000 Toyota Tundra Pickup

I'm not laughing, ... I'm a beleeeeiver! Did the same thing today.

Now to put those new adjustable Konis on.

- Jeff Miller
190DT