Photo #6 is the tool setup I used to access the two bolts into the turbo base.
Photo #7 is reaching up behind the tube for the almost hidden bolt
Also read the first part of this report titled Turbo Drain. The easy fix

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Thanks for sharing. This will help save time searching for the "right combination" to reach those two buggers! Where's the picture of the extra set of hands needed on top to help guide the socket from underneath, though?

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too many w123's
84 280 SL 5 speed

The hardest part of the job to me was getting the turbo gasket base perfectly clean. I could not get it on my 83. I sprung a very slow leak driving me to change it, and I always had a leak afterwards too... Any recommendations or pics for that?

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Current Diesels:
1981 240D (73K)
1982 300CD (169k)
1985 190D (169k)
1991 350SD (113k)
1991 350SD (206k)
1991 300D (228k)
1993 300SD (291k)
1993 300D 2.5T (338k)
1996 Dodge Ram CTD (442k)
1996 Dodge Ram CTD (265k)

Past Diesels:
1983 300D (228K)
1985 300D (233K)

I'm curious why you started a new thread instead of replying to your first one. All info would be together.
I guess when a mod combines these he can delete this post.

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'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Thanks JimmyL. I never thought of that, kind of new to posting pictures. Didn't know the limit was five.

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To JHZR2
Read the second part of this post farther down the list. That may help.

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1984 300SD turbo 126
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God made me an atheist and who am I to question His wisdom