Hi All, would love to pick your collective brains.

I have a 1990 W126 300SE with a bad engine. I also have a salvage but running (well used to be running till I took the engine out!) 1993 W124 300D with the 2.5 liter Turbo-Diesel. You know where this is going of course!

I do VW TDI swaps all the time, and it's quite ordinary for me at this point, but this is the first Mercedes I'm attempting to swap to Diesel, and with an engine that was never installed in a W126.

Now here is the technical help I could really use:
I got the engine and harness out of the W124, and started taking out the harness out of the W126 - how do I get the thick harness out from under the windshield cowl area? It seems that one side goes into the fuse box and onto the engine, and the other side goes into the ground point and into the inside of the car, very different from the W124..

Any ideas for me? I'll post some more pics of the carnage tomorrow

W124 Donor


W126 receiver