Pagoda SL Group

W113 Pagoda SL Group => Drive train, fuel, suspension, steering & brakes => Topic started by: bootes on April 04, 2011, 22:10:00

Title: Help with this washer?
Post by: bootes on April 04, 2011, 22:10:00

Anyone know what this washer might go to? I found it in the housing directly underneath the gearbox end yoke. I didn't have anything apart in that area so it fell off of something  ???

It is paper thin, flimsy and is the size of a quarter.

Thanks

Title: Re: Help with this washer?
Post by: Naj ✝︎ on April 05, 2011, 07:52:40

Shifter yoke at gearbox?
Maybe a po dropped it?

Naj

Title: Re: Help with this washer?
Post by: rwh on April 05, 2011, 23:35:55

I recently had my heater core out and the fan/blower unit out.  When re-installing the blower unit I became very familiar with all the nuts and bolts that held it in place. That washer may belong to the bolt that attaches the blower box to the transmission tunnel.

At the bottom of the blower unit is an "L" shaped bracket that attaches the  unit to the top of the transmission tunnel.  That 10mm bolt goes through the bracket and into the transmission tunnel.  You attach the washer and 10mm nut to that bolt through the access hole on the right of the transmission tunnel.  I would remove the access plate (entails peeling the carpet back), feel up to where that bolt passes through the transmission tunnel and see if there is a washer behind that nut.

If anyone had removed that blower unit in the past they may have gotten impatient and just threaded the nut on the bolt after the washer fell into some unreachable spot.  I know because I had to make several retrievals of my washer and nut with a magnetic retrieval tool until I finally got it threaded.

Just a theory.
RWH

Title: Re: Help with this washer?
Post by: bootes on April 07, 2011, 02:53:48

Great info RWH,
Thanks!