Hi,

I just noticed a nice pool of anti freeze on my floor this morning. Oozing from the freeze plug behind the injection pump on my 82 300SD.

I bought the plugs at Pelican. MB OEM.

I’m looking at the plug and it looks like I’ll need to take out my oil filter housing and pump to get at it. It’s the forward most one but I figure it’ll be easy to replace the rear one while I’m on it. Also the hard to access IP bolt is rounded on my SD so I’ll need a to get the filter out to access it. The most I’ve done down there is replace cooler lines and tighten up my filter mount bolts. So I’m kinda going into unknown territory

Is it possible to pound that plug in with the pump in place? I’ve never installed a freeze plug before so I have no idea how tough it is to pound in.

I’ve got all my baskets ready to go if I need to clear the IP out of the way. Just checking to see if there is some super clever way to push in that plug without all the disassembly and retiming fuss. Otherwise I know what I’m doing this thanksgiving.

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79 300TD “Old Smokey” AKA “The Mistake” (SOLD)
82 240D stick shift 335k miles (SOLD)
82 300SD 300k miles
85 300D Turbodiesel 170k miles
97 C280 147k miles