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Very easy to pull the side pan in a 603.96.
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When I get home I'll post pictures of my original oil pump and its bearing. It appears to be in perfect shape but I replaced it anyway.
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"Buster" in the '95 Our all-Diesel family 1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car 2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022) Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762 "Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz." -- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970 |
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GSXR has some great pics of Vacuum Pumps
on OM60X.XXX engines that have Imploded.(Involuntary Dis-assembly)
Congratulations! You ARE one lucky Guy! Looks like a change in Barometric Pressure could have resulted in Catastrophe.
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I've seen two instances (my '84 TD and a friends '85 190D) of vacuum-pump failure. Both resulted in the ball-bearings winding up in the oil-pan, without engine-damage.
While having a dozen ball-bearings dumped into a rapidly-moving timng-chain is highly undesireable, there may be a good chance that the chain and gears will survive, so long as larger fragmnts of the pump-lever don't follow them into the chain. The balls are small enough that they could pass harmlessly through openings in the chain, and with the mileage on most of our cars, chain-stretch may even allow a ball to briefly ride a sprocket without causing damage. It would be interesting if someone could take a survey of how many pump failures have occured on thse cars without engine damage. In any case, the new pump I installed on my TD has metal bearing cages, while the new lever-kit that I may still install on my undamaged 240 pump has plastic cages. Happy Motoring, Mark
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