Why spend all this time/money if you have no leaks? Just service the diff and get on with life.

Diff mount I understand, but I have never seen nor heard of a reason to swap the axles. Rebooting axles without a tool is very difficult.

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

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