Are the fan blades in the 84 300d same size as in the 83 300d?
I tried a fan shroud from a 83 in my 84 and it hits the fan, i tried installing it several times, i am stuck on this one, any help?
Thanks
Survivor

are you going from metal fan to plastic fan ?

if not.. try repositioning the radiator and shroud.. there are adjustments fro the shroud tabs

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Somewhere in that time frame Mercedes changed to a different pulley size to make the fan spin faster, presumably pulling more air. The fan size may have changed at the same time, along with the shroud.

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-biodiesel family
1995 E300D (W124) 201,000 miles My car
1996 E300D (W210) 289,000 miles Wife's car

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Fan sizes are the same for all the 617.95x turbos regardless if they are the 6 blade steel or 9 blade plastic. All 617.952 (300D) and the '81-83 617.951 (300SD) had the 7 inch water pump pulley. The '84-'85 617.951 (300SD0 had the 6 inch water pump pulley.


As jt20 stated try repositioning the fan shroud. If it doesn't work, take some pictures so we can determine how to correct the problem.

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1983 300D California 170K
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That would help to explain why the local parts places have trouble selling the correct size belts.

Anyone have a spare 6" pulley they want to get rid of?

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The shroud i have which i pulled form a 83 says use only with no100?
I tried and i tried putting this thing in my 84 but i cant clamp it onto the radiator without making it hit the bottom blades, is there a trick to shuving the radiator deeper into the holes on the frame of the car?

So it turns out i have the right shroud, but i have a collapsed pass side motor mount.