I was a good boy last week and changed the vacuum pump in my '87 300D-T (W124, OM603) before it spit shrapnel into the timing chain. The pump I removed looks great, of course, no sign of wear or damage at all. So what do I do with a perfectly good but fatally flawed (open ball bearings) vacuum pump? My parents lived through the Great Depression and I was taught not to throw things away that might be needed some day . . . but this is not something I wanna keep.

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .343,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 148,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 177,300 (2026 projected)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 668,300
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970