Anyone know where I can order pistons for a 1976 240D?

Fastlane? Metric Motors? A local McParts store?

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70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

91 W124 300D Turbo replaced, Pressure W/G actuator installed. 210K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

I checked fastlane. No dice.

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

Someone here mentioned they bought Mahle pistons, but didn't mention where they bought them

I bought them from Rusty, ***************

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1985 Euro 240D 5 spd 140K
1979 240D 5 spd, 40K on engine rebuild
1994 Dodge/Cummins, 5 spd, 121K
1964 Allice Chalmers D15 tractor
2014 Kubota L3800 tractor
1964 VW bug

"Lifes too short to drive a boring car"

Are you sure you need pistons? about 75% of the time we have not had to buy pistons for them.

Also I have a good set of four for a 240d if you need them...used.

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

No I am not sure, I don't have the engine apart yet. I am just trying to get my ducks in a row in cases I need them. I am trying to sell or part the car. If I can't do that I will either have to be happy with scrap price or decide I want to enter into a money pit.

You seem to be saying to have done a lot of these. Are you a MB mechanic or just a private restorer. I know from my extensive gas engine experience that many pistons are scuffed. Also, I am concerned about ring groove wear. Is it your experience that these are not usually issues with these engines. I was hoping, if I coudn't sell it and ended up rebulding the engine, that I could get away with new sleeves and the old pistons. Is that usually the course you take?

I am not a professional, but I have the use of an excellent professional machinist, who is also about my best friend. We have done five or six benzes together, mostly with his work, and usually we have reused the pistons. He measures the wear on the ring lands and so forth and makes a determination of condition. When I had pistons that were too worn we went through all the spares I had and found good enough used ones to reuse.

Usually we have done the sleeves and rebored them to match the diameter of the used pistons for factory new clearances.

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Try here http://*************** EXPENSIVE, yet they showed up on a search.

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