I wish I could say it was a cake walk on the V8. With all the technology out there, it's too bad these shop manuals don't provide any pragmatic perspective of the problems one could reasonably expect to encounter on jobs like this. It's like they are one step above the people who write the instructions for all the electronic products we buy from China.

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1993 400E, 256,000 miles (totaled)
1994 E420, 200,000+ miles
1995 E420, 201,000 miles