G'day Folks,

Although I plan to use this gearbox in a petrol engined car I've decided to post this information here in the diesel forum 'cos the 717.412 was also used in many a W201 and W124 diesel engined car - it was shared by both petrol engined and diesel engined models. The guru's here on DD are more likely in my humble opinion to be the nutters (like me) who pull things to bits...

I'm going to be upgrading my new acquisition from 4 speed to 5 =>

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/tech-help/341121-achtung-das-baby-benz-thread.html

Before I went and picked up the car I had plans for a 5 speed conversion and I started to shop around for a 717.412 (because it was also fitted by Mercedes to the 201.018 chassis). I was lucky enough to find two advertised. One by a private seller and the other by the Dutch Mercedes spare parts Mafia - these are the people who will only speak to you if you call them on a mobile telephone that provides your caller ID; they don't negotiate; they don't really know what they are selling...

...so I went to see the private seller. 175 notes changed hands and the 717.412 became mine - this amount of money was well worth paying just for the entertainment factor of his dog that manages to produce a vast amount of saliva and also manages to spend more time up in the air barking than it does on the ground!

Anyway I was told the gear box was good - he even insisted that I took some second hand gear box oil with me (some people just can't let go of stuff) - and that it had only done 82,000 km.

Has anyone here ever come across a gear box that has done more than 82,000 kilometers? That isn't good? That was not owned by a little old lady... blah blah blah?

Anyway because the gear box is of unknown quality I'm pulling it to bits to see if it is OK and so I'll be posting up pictures as I go. Here's the beauty in all her mud and old oil clad glory

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1992 W201 190E 1.8 171,000 km - Daily driver
1981 W123 300D ~ 100,000 miles / 160,000 km - project car stripped to the bone
1965 Land Rover Series 2a Station Wagon CIS recovery therapy!
1961 Volvo PV544 Bare metal rat rod-ish thing

I'm here to chat about cars and to help others - I'm not here "to always be right" like an internet warrior



Don't leave that there - I'll take it to bits!