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Old 02-08-2012, 05:31 PM
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Originally Posted by BobK View Post
300D motor will fit. Have to swap the motor mount arms. They move to different bolt holes in block. Run a tap in all the bolt holes to make life easier. Also need to swap the cooland pipe that fits into the back of the water pump housing. Do this BEFORE you install the engine (don't ask me how I know). Battery cabling to starter is also different. DTD is a wagon motor so it may have an SLS pump on the front of it. Don't know what you do with that. I am in the middle of swapping an '87 300D motor into my '86 SDL.
Goodness!! A rogue D........
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'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John
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