Your guide was very helpful, just finished replacing the tensioner, pulley and viscous fan. Really great walk through and relatively easy to do. I was able to do this without removing the radiator and once the fan and shroud were out plenty of room. Only thing different was I took the WP pulley off, four bolts, to get enough room to line up the tensioner bolt right. The Febi part I got was a smidge bigger and bumped the WPP than the MB one I took off.

Having done this once, I will go back and do the dampener and spring on my next parts buy, which of course is sooner than I think

OT, the ACM viscous clutch is pn# 6062000022 and was reasonably priced I guess "they" stopped making the 603 version. I might give refilling the old one as mention in other threads as a spare.

Thanks

Treetops

THANK YOU for this detailed write up !! .

My Brother's '87 300SDL W/ OM603 just failed something in there and chewed up the belt, broke the big spring .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

If by chance the serpentine belt got itself wrapped around the crank pulley/balancer be aware that when that happens it can damage the crank seal in the process. It probably isn't worth trying to figure out if that happened but be aware and keep an eye on any oil leaks that might manifest themselves seeming to come from that area as potential "collateral damage"!

THANK YOU ! .

He hates to ever clean anything (I see cleaner cars in Junk Yards) so the engine is fairly dirty .

We'll see how this all goes, I'm waiting for him to order the parts now .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I was looking all over for this thread but the photos are unavailable because of photo bucket, anyway to to view them?

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1998 Ford Escort ZX2 5 speed - 279,000 miles My Daily

1992 Mercedes 300D 2.5 202,000 - Pure junk
2000 Mercedes E320 Black - 136,000 miles - Needs repair

Don't forget to grease the screw and threads on the spring compressor.

Yes, if you are using Chrome, I installed this last week. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/photobucket-embedded-imag/ogipgokcopooepeipngiikdkpmcpkaon?hl=en-US
It installed in seconds and works great, I can see all PB photos now.

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Brian
87 300Dturbo 180K #14 head still running R-12 SOLD 12/2017
02 F350 Powerstroke 180K
05 Chevy Express 1 ton w/Royal Utility box 120K
08 Infiniti FX-35 40K
15 Golf Sportwagen TDI 35K
10 Sprinter 3500 chassis with a Class A Winnebago on it. 56K