Thread: 300SD Factory manual trans?
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Old 07-25-2015, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Quirky Mercy View Post
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So my question is did they ever factory build a manual? What about a grey market?
There was never a factory built OM617a (turbo) fitted to a W115/6 W123 or a W126 with a 5 speed manual gearbox. They did, however fit both four and five speed manual gearboxes to the non turbo OM617.

Some W124 and second generation W126 vehicles were fitted with OM60X engines and five speed manual gearboxes over here
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