The OM616 is very much like an OM617 - look at the pictures of my OM617 in bits in this thread:-

Timing marks gone from my OM617 engine

It can only fall down in the bit 'made for' the timing chain and find its way into the upper oil pan and then the lower one

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!