In yet another boneheaded move, in a series, I forgot to replace the clamps after I had all of that out, about a year and 4K miles ago. I have it on good authority that w/o them the lines can degrade prematurely.

I can't find them and am looking for the right units. Wouldn't be spendy you would think. Pelican doesn't seem to have them, I have a question in now for their staff.

I found some generic online but the spacing is wrong. I'll keep an eye out at boneyards but I suspect you'd need to get there early.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

yes, you'll need to get them ASAP before the steel pipes fatigue and crack .

I'm sure someone here has a few .

FWIW, I always use a 7MM nut driver and shortie 7MM box end spanner to service them .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Worse comes to worse, I could just fab something but the labor involved is probably worth a lot more to me than the price of some pre-made items. I’m surprise there isn’t some cheapo bag full of them at Pelican or anywhere else.

I’m guessing stainless steel would be the material to go with.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I see them at the yard allll the time, along with the injection hardlines.
I highly doubt you’ll have any issues.

Take a couple of 8mm (sorry Nate) ratcheting wrenches and you’ll be out of there in no time.

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1981 240D 4sp manual. Ivory White.

That would be the ticket. I’m looking at Pick n Pull now for recent arrivals, will keep an eye out for that.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Check out the post entitled Row 52 in the diesel section of this forum. I post almost daily Mércedes diesels located at PicknPull yards mostly in Northern California.

Oops ! .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

I'm going to watch it more closely.

There are 3 in my comfortable range - Newark, Oakland, and San Jose. Richmond sort of, but it's a stretch. San Jose South closed.

Here's an odd one. This item was found on a competitors web page, referred to as:

"O.E.M. Fuel Injector Line; Retainer Bracket"

I'm not getting something ...

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

The Cummins B series engines ('80's thru '00's) uses a similar clamp. You might find some of those in the U-Pull-It yards. Commonly used in the Dodge pick-em-ups and many step vans.

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This does a similar thing but is for later engines and fits into a stamped sheet metal bracket .

-Nate

This style is for the OM60x engines. Take a peek at your 300SDL and you'll see the brackets with these little plastic clamps holding the lines at various locations in the engine bay.

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Current stable:
1995 E320 149K (Nancy)
1983 500SL 120K (SLoL)

Black Sheep:
1985 524TD 167K (TotalDumpster™)

Gone but not forgotten:
1986 300SDL (RIP)
1991 350SD
1991 560SEL
1990 560SEL
1986 500SEL Euro (Rusted to nothing at 47K!)

If they were NLA, no one priced them at a reasonable rate and I had plenty of time I could see manufacturing a set. In fact, if there were rounded corners on these things, over the years I've lost a lot of less blood messing around that part of the engine.

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84 300SD
85 380SE
83 528e
95 318ic

I'm amazed no one has offered up a set ~ I know many here have old junk engines and so on, this is why I kept assembled dead units when I had my indie shop way back when ~ no need to wait a few days for that special bolt or washer from the dealer if you have some old engine / tranny / carby / etc. to scavenge parts off of...

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Those look as though they will do the trick. You might consider putting a dab of the Permatex Red silicone between the steel lines and the rubber just as a fixative to prevent slippage as the rubber wears in.


Edit* What happened to your post with your fix/pix? It was there and now it's gone.

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Hey Mike, sorry about that, I made some small changes and will repost with updated pics. I didn't think anyone had responded yet.

For some reason my computer wasn't letting me respond to your PM. It does that now and then. Hit refresh, hit back arrow, forward arrow, nothing worked.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K