Yes, and that's the main reason why the air cleaner mounts and brackets fail so often, they're violently shaken to death!
Here's the fix.
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showpost.php?p=622208&postcount=8
Also, read this. The late Marshall Booth provided this quote from the late Randy Durrance on another MB forum some years ago.
Quote:
"The air filter mount problem has existed long enough. This is the
repair.....
Looking at the air cleaner, notice the small space between the air cleaner
and the valve cover. There is a flat area on the air cleaner housing near the
valve cover. The repair requires an old rubber shock absorber mount, a 6 mm
bolt (10 mm hex) about 10 to 12 mm long, flat washers and a nut. Make a mark
on the forward area of the flat side of the air cleaner housing (toward the
valve cover). Remove the air cleaner housing and drill a 6 mm hole at the spot
you marked. Put the bolt in the hole from the inside using the washers and
nut. Now you have a bolt sticking out of the air cleaner housing... Take an
old rubber doughnut from a shock absorber and stick it over the protruding
bolt/nut. Be sure the bolt does not stick out of the rubber.
Reinstall the housing and viola the air cleaner housing is unable to generate
enough momentum to break the bracket. I've been doing this for about 8
years....never had a second air cleaner bracket break.
The idea is to limit the movement of the housing. Even when they were new the
brackets were prone to failure.
Regards,
Randy D."
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Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.
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