Well, I stuck a new engine in my wife's 240 and it was running awesome for an entire month. It had more life and pickup than her last engine that I removed. Then it stopped running and I was tearing my hair our to try and figure out what it was that was not allowing it to start. I could not even turn the engine over by hand...

So today I pulled the valve cover off and...well you be the judge.



Just starting my own little pity party...good thing that the engine has a parts and labor warranty huh?

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1981 240D/297K/4-spd/OM617 (mine)
1982 240D/241K/4-spd (wife's)
1979 240D/291K/4-spd/OM617 (father-in-law's)
1983 300DT/240K/4-spd (brother-in-law's)
1985 300DT/???K/5-spd Intercooler conversion (brother-in-law's)
1985 280TE/160K/5-spd (father-in-law's)
1963 UNIMOG (brother-in-law's)