I recently bought a 1987 300tdt with the Diesel engine and I have found a 88 300te parts car. I was wondering if the following will interchange:

fan clutch assembly
radiator
transmission

Basically I want to part the 88 for whatever parts will work with my car . In particular right now is the fan clutch and radiator. My fan clutch is suspect as it is very easy to spin and I recently had an abnormal temp rise in local traffic. I have bought a new thermostat and plan to find a fan clutch. Mine is the version with the metal blades which through research seems to be an original version.

Any advice would be great.

Start a free account for the online EPC (need to provide a credit card number to verify US residency) and you can figure this out.

I am pretty sure that the transmission is wrong (gearing, lack of vacuum control?), I suspect that the radiator may be wrong, the fan clutch is probably compatible.

I don't have access to EPC now, only in the evenings.

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Respectfully,
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M. Dillon
'87 124.193 (300TD) "White Whale", ~392k miles, 3.5l IP fitted
'95 124.131 (E300) "Sapphire", 380k miles
'73 Balboa 20 "Sanctification"
Charleston SC

Thanks for the info on the epc. I will look into an account. In the mean time maybe someone else can chime in