I need to do this on 95 E300 but I don't have the special tool. Did you buy the special tool ? If you did how much did you pay ?

you can use a few sockets in lieu of a special tool, I found the info somewhere online I forget where. My experienced tech cousin also looked at it and was able to figure it out. Good luck!

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1995 E300 diesel

When you do this, be sure to take lots of pictures and be extra safe supporting the vehicle. Securely strap vehicle forward and back to prevent movement!

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I came across this again today. I am thinking I may do it on my 95 soon. the clunk when shifting is getting annoying. I spent today and a couple hours yesterday swapping differentials from one 83' 240d to another 83' 240d. dropping the differential on the w123 only takes 1.5-2 hours and about the same to install wondering how much harder it would be to do this, though. It looks almost like it'd be in there as tight as a balljoint.. what a PITA..

I have been pondering this for a week or so and keep coming back to how big of a deal would it be to just drop the rear sub frame with diff, control arms and all. A guy could totally go through it much easier I think?

In looking at it I think you could do it with a transmission jack and lower the whole thing down?

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oh man, I haven't even considered trying to drop the whole subframe and replacing everything. the whole subframe moves around easily with removal of a few bolts on the w123, my guess is it would be harder on a w124.

I am more of the type of person who doesn't like to fix things that aren't broken, only because the times I've gone that route it seems to kind of blow up in my face and make more work for me.. haha. I've had 2 other w124's and this is the only one with that clunk while shifting. I am sure I'll get to it when this rain slows a bit.