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Originally Posted by rick surgent
Have a 300sdl(w126) with bad rod bender,
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Thread subject says 350SDL. Here it says 300SDL. The 3.5 is the rod bender.
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Originally Posted by rick surgent
also have a good 603 out of a 2000 300d (w124).
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The W124 didn't make it to MY 2000.
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Originally Posted by rick surgent
Besides the oil pan and engine mounts, anything else needed to swap...Are the trans the same? The 300d trans is known to be good , so would rather use that one.
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Make sure the oil cooler line fittings in the oil filter housing line up. If not, swap housings. Doesn't matter which oil filter lid you use in an SDL.
The 300D turbo compressor air inlet snout might be longer than the 3.5's so you might have to modify the 3.5 air inlet hose if the 300D hose doesn't fit. Ignore the ARV in the 300D turbo. You can leave the ARV vacuum nipple disconnected.
Save the 3.5 head. It'll likely be a later casting you can use if the 300D engine overheats. Save the cam, cam towers, injectors and injector lines with the head.
Reconfiguring the tranny is more work than it's worth, IMO. Don't swap or swap and use mach4's external speedo drive mod.
Sixto
87 300D