{"id":1045,"date":"2013-09-21T14:39:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T13:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2013-09-21T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T13:50:36","slug":"are-there-any-decent-previous-owners-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/?p=1045","title":{"rendered":"Are there any decent previous owners around?"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\nLocation: North of Narvik \/ Norway\nOdo: 287950\n<\/pre>\n<p>Something was feeling wrong with the handling of the car. Only slightly, maybe it&#8217;s just the bad roads or my mind playing tricks on me since I always worry something could break. Over the last couple of days I had a look at usual suspects like the engine mounts, drivetrain mounts, shocks, &#8230; and eventually started shacking the tires. A quite familiar knocking noise on the front drivers side: a wheel bearing&#8230; Luckily almost all mercs from the 70s-90s have the same, adjustable mechanism so you only have jack up the wheel and to remove the grease cap to adjust some nut.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMG_20130921_105710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_20130921_105710.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-IMG_20130921_105710.jpg\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Something is wrong on this picture...<\/p><\/div>\n<p> There actually is a reason why the caps protecting wheel bearings are called &#8220;grease caps&#8221;. They are supposed to be filled with grease.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-you-dont-say.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"you-dont-say.jpeg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wpid-you-dont-say.jpeg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis isn&#8217;t. The other one wasn&#8217;t neither. By coincidence (or clever packing?) I got a tube of SKS bearing grease on board, so I packed both caps with sufficient grease. After a facepalm and some cursing. I guess the bearings will hold until I&#8217;m back at the workshop in Hannover, so there&#8217;s just another item for the &#8220;take care of soonish&#8221; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: North of Narvik \/ Norway Odo: 287950 Something was feeling wrong with the handling of the car. Only slightly, maybe it&#8217;s just the bad roads or my mind playing tricks on me since I always worry something could break. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/?p=1045\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anditainment.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}