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Originally Posted by anghrist
Yeah, I had a senior MB service tech look at it. BTW, he works his own shop now and refuses to work for a dealership service department. Anyway, he looked at it and immediately said, your engine has been replaced at some point. He pointed to the sticker on the front of the valve cover and said that the '77s didn't have that sticker on the valve cover from the factory.
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That's pretty great. It's always fun to look for a "Tauschaggregat" badge when checking out a used car (or junkyard car). When I called the Classics Center about my motor, they told me the date of installation, and what dealership installed it, IIRC. For some reason, they either couldn't tell me the mileage when it was installed, or didn't know. Still, with the date of installation, you can ballpark how many miles are you that motor. Certainly fewer than the odometer shows!