Thread: 83 300d into a 82 240d engine swap
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Old 03-24-2007, 04:39 PM
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I have searched this forum nummerous times and need help and all the advice i can get I had my 82 240d radiator hose come off and fried my number 2 cylinder and bought a complete 83 300d turbo and need to know how and how feasable it is to swap the motors and i do have an automatic transmission also i do not have the donor car but the motor is complete along with exahuaust pipes, Is this an easy swap or can i make the swap and then send to shop for little things please help
Unless you can get the driveshaft out of the donor, you'll have problem as they are of different length. Here's a cross-reference list.

It looks like you may have to get the driveshaft out of a 300DT or 300TDT.

Which tranny are you going to put in?
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