I can change a gasser dash to a diesel dash in 5 minutes, so I can easily see that being a donor engine from a 116 SD installed in a gasser, several members of this site have done similar conversions.

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

OK...I did the "Russian" vin check at MB club Russia and it came back with better info. Here is the info:

Model 300 D
Chassis 123
Engine 617912 12 101880
Transmission 02 102252
Order 0 9 705 33614
Approx. year 1980
Dealer United States (USA)
(705) Interior leather "Twin" pacific blue
(132) Paint 930 silver blue metallic
Options 410 electric sliding roof
420 automatic transmission, floor shift
440 tempomat (cruise control)
467 central locking system
491 USA version
513 Becker radio
588 automatic climate control and electric window lifters
639 elimination of first-aid box and warning triangle (с 01.08.1977)
640 aluminium disc wheels with radial-ply tires (с 01.10.1969 по 31.12.1989)


So, is the motor that is in it a "617912"?

Thanks, Don

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84-300D 256K
81-300SD 217K (Wife's)
79-300CD 212K - Project
89-Volvo 245 305K

www.dieselgiant.com shows you where the part#'s are on the engine, see if that # matches the motor, I donot remember the .912/950/952 etc part differences. but I think the 912 is n/a, not a turbo.

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 560SL convertible
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
2005 Dodge Sprinter 2500 158"WB
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

OK...the 617 912 is a nonturbo. The motor in the 80-300D is a 617-950 so it is a turbo! Now I need to figure out when the 617-950 motors were made.

Let me know how to check the turbo out.

Thanks, Don

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84-300D 256K
81-300SD 217K (Wife's)
79-300CD 212K - Project
89-Volvo 245 305K

It looks like the motor in the 80-300D is from a 1979 or 1980 300 SD (the 116). I hope that the turbo is easy to service when I pull the motor.

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84-300D 256K
81-300SD 217K (Wife's)
79-300CD 212K - Project
89-Volvo 245 305K

The 617.950 is a 116 300SD engine.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012

Nope, only a serial number unrelated to a vin.

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DJ


84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012