The heat shields are a factory retrofit (nowadays it is called a recall). They never came installed in the air cleaner until a few years after.

Before that these rubber mounts where usual wear items that were replaced often with hose pieces and other stuff...

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Aquilae non capunt muscas! (Eagles don't hunt flies!)


1979 300SD Black/Black MBtex239000mi
1983 300TD euro-NA. White/Olive Cloth-MBtex 201000mi. Fleet car of the USA embassy in Morocco
1983 240D Labrador Blue/Blue MBtex 161000mi