Thanks Tom,

A long block would be a good idea.
But what I got from Doc's message it would still be a big job maybe I should wait and just buy the car.

I am still going to buy the head, just wondering. I asumed the pistons are pocketed for the valves.

Mercedes is vey good about parts interchange, when my ignition ecu went on my 1986 420 sel (2000,-) for the part. I just ran the car with a distributor from a 1971 4.2 sel

Worked well. Untill I found a used one on E-Bay, this was a year ago.

thanks for your help.

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