Gents, today at the junkyard I found a 300sd, chassis w126, that appeared to me to have a recently-purchased turbocharger on it. I decided to remove it to take a better look. The impeller at the front didn't have any play on it, and the blades weren't torn-up like the ones on my turbo



It took me about 15 minutes to remove this. I used only a 13mm wrench, and a 13mm socket. The hardest bolt to remove was the bottom one, as the closed end of my wrench wouldn't fit over the bolt--had to use the open end and risk stripping the bolt, but I manged to remove it.

I bought both the turbo and the down-pipe which leads to the oil pan. How old do you think this turbo is?

The turbo is made by KKK, and has a Mercedes logo badge with part number on it. I haven't seen KKK brand before, and maybe I'm late to the game, but they must have been (maybe still are) an official supplier of the turbo to Mercedes after some year, such that you would get this brand when you bought one from Mercedes directly

Part number 002 096 16 99
Alternate number: 83 158 0269
third line number: 5326 970 6031

Although I removed this from a 300sd, chassis w126, I would like to know if this turbo would work for my 1983 Mercedes 300d turbo, chassis w123.

The one on my car is made by AIR RESEARCH TS. The only appreciable visible difference is that the rubber hose that emanates from a valve at the front of my turbo going to the part that goes directly under the turbo (my ignorance is laughable), is about double the diameter. There is a brass valve that is threaded into a hole in the turbo which accepts this rubber hose. However on the KKK turbo, there is a different metal valve, and a smaller diameter rubber hose.

I was also wondering if the newish looking metal downpipe (tube that leads from turbo to oil pan) is the same for w126 and w123 models, such that I can take advantage of this newer part as well

Final question: the turbo on my car just bolts into the iron bracket, whereas this one has three separate metal brackets, each with two bolts, that bolts the turbo to the iron bracket. Would this bolt up just the same, with the same bolt-pattern?

Thanks,

Sev

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