I climbed under the car after driving the rear up on ramps and saw a pair of nasty bushings behind the differential. What is this part, and is it worth fixing? The car rides fine except for a slight pull to the right. Thanks!

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those are the rear differential mounts, tere is another one near the front of the diff as well. the left one looks especially bad. worth fixing, but not likely your pull, how do the rear suspension link bushings look?

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for both your quick replies

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1987 300e "200,000+ and going strong"

Check your rear sway bar links too. My car had a pull to the right which I thought was just bad alignment. I replaced the sway bar links and the pull disappeared!

Phil has them listed for $10.81 each for your car and they take all of 20 minutes to replace.

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When these fail, you get a nice clunk when shifting gears.
No effect on rear wheel steering.

Takes a special puller to change, and the mounts are indexed.

Jim

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