No ;

I have not heard from my Mechanic, I hope to go by today and give him a nudge, maybe I'll ask if he wants me to take it elsewhere, I'm sure Rich will do a bang up job if I top it up to his place .

The bearings, you local bearing house will be able to look at them and tell you if more balls bearings are available, I have done this with various non Mercedes rear wheel bearings and always got better results than stock as O.E.M. (apart from Mercedes) tend to be specced to a price not the best possible .

C., I'm curious ~ did your original bearings have play or any noise when you spun them ? .

-IF- it turns out to be the vacuum pump's bearings that failed let this be a warning to you ~ I'd heard of many who's pumps failed after 250,000 mile so I knew I was risking disaster .

I'm religious about 3,000 mile HOT oil and filter changes so if it failed, my fault 1,000 % .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better