A 240TD (wagon, NOT turbo) is available here (extremely rare), and it had the SLS pump head.

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1985 R107 300SLD TURBODIESEL
2005 E320 CDI (daily)

LOTS of parts for sale!


EGR block kit
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/355250-sale-egr-delete-block-off-plate-kit.html

1985 CA emissions 617 owners- You Need This!
Sanden style A/C Compressor Mounting Kit for your 616/ 617 For Sale + Install Inst.

Sanden Instalation Guide (post 11):
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That engine is rare ... I wish I could grab another. I have two more heavy duty engine stands with nothing on them now ...

I've got all kinds of crap if you want to store it!

Any chance a standard head could be milled? It doesn't look terribly complicated

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$60 OM617 Blank Exhaust Flanges
$110 OM606 Blank Exhaust Flanges
No merc at the moment

No thanks Ryan ... lol I just cleared out a TON (almost literally) and really pared down the hording .... Being more selective with my hording ... I guess that's a managed illness?

IDK about the milling. I can barely handle a hand drill ...

They can be milled of course, but you have to remove the prechambers first.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I mean milled to accept an SLS pump. It looks like there's a rear bearing recess, the big front hole, and then a raised section. You could probably add all that to a standard head so it accepts an SLS pump.

Or you could just fit a w124 combo PS/SLS pump (this is my plan for the wagon)

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$60 OM617 Blank Exhaust Flanges
$110 OM606 Blank Exhaust Flanges
No merc at the moment

I could probably find one here (OM616 SLS head) if I really tried hard. I sold my 240TD shell to my mechanic who dropped a 615 with SLS head in it. He *might* have one. Shipping would be impractically expensive however

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1978 300D, 373,000km 617.912, 711.113 5 speed, 7.5mm superpump, HX30W turbo...many, many years in the making....
1977 280> 300D - 500,000km+ (to be sold...)
1984 240TD>300TD 121,000 miles, *gone*
1977 250 parts car
1988 Toyota Corona 2.0D *gone*
1975 FJ45>HJ45
1981 200>240D (to be sold...)
1999 Hyundai Lantra 1.6 *gone*
1980s Lansing Bagnall FOER 5.2 Forklift (the Mk2 engine hoist)
2001 Holden Rodeo 4JB1T 2WD

I do know of a local car once sold in Germany new. That may or may not indicate that on occasion Mercedes may have accepted special orders from individual customers. Through their dealers.

It was a 240d label on the trunk with a five cylinder engine in it. The car was seized by the Canadian government when they arrested a member of their notorious bernhoff-minhof gang when he tried to enter Canada. I cannot remember the right spelling of that gang s name. The car had to almost be new when it was impounded.

A guy about twenty miles away bought it at a public government auction. It may have had the four cylinder replaced with a five cylinder of course. But when the car turned up at my doorstep it did not have enough accumulated milage to make one think so. It was an automatic as well. At that time I remember thinking perhaps special order of some sort.

There are apparently a few on YouTube and other finds once one starts to dig deeper. I even saw the rear of a trunk badge, although I cannot make out the part # plus I cannot tell if the trunk badge was a carefully done mod.

My suspicions are one can drop in a 4 cylinder drive train as is, auto or manual, and the only issue will be the front section of driveshaft (Thanks to DeliveryValve's Comment).

So, the issue would be is there a drop in solution for the front section of the drive shaft???? That is, in the family of W123s, is there one which fits without modification?

Just remember, If your engine-less CD doesn't have the rear portion of the driveshaft, you're 240 rear section driveshaft will not fit because of a different center bearing placement.

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I think maybe there was at one time 240D 3.0 designation sold in other markets.

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.