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Old 12-18-2010, 06:03 PM
Oz 300te Oz 300te is offline
1989 502,000km 300TE
 
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Location: Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
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Originally Posted by jhodg5ck View Post
any photos of the job? Just would be curious to See what ya'll did

I think in proper conditions, ie the Autobahn where one would/could be turning very high RPM for extended periods the cooler would be greater importance. The vast majority of us likely don't tax our mercs quite that hard;-)

Jonathan
No, we didn't take any photos.
Pretty straight forward though.
This twin cam used the 104 180 02 09 heat exchanger and is hard to find online and I would expect it to be expensive at the dealer.
Also downtime was a factor. Using the plate got the car back on the road same day and oil in the coolant isn't coming back again.
I don't expect there to be any problems, like you say in extreme circumstances like constant high speed running it maybe doing something.
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