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Originally Posted by Stevo
While cleaning my shop desk this morning I ran across the bushing that caused the vacuum pump on a 240D of mine to fail. There was 2.5mm of lateral slop when I moved the timing device on the intermediate shaft. It had slammed back and forth beating the daylights out of the VP and engine block. I caught it before the engine was destroyed.
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Good catch - did you check the vertical play on the oil pump drive as well?
Because the horizontal bit shuttles back and forth the vertical bit takes a bashing too.
{Note to turbo owners => Only applicable for us non turbo OM617 / OM616 owners!)