Maybe I'm just trying to vent here, but I've about had it with my 617a in my wagon. I used to have great luck with my 300D's both non turbo and turbo. However this 300TD is testing my patience daily. Constant oil leaks, smokes like a maersk alabama when cold starting, eats turbos for breakfast, hiccups at idle, constantly loosens belts, etc.

I want to rip the engine out and throw a OM602 in it's place, the body is in amazing shape for a driver condition wagon and has great local history but this is the worst om61x I've ever owned.

Anyone else fed up with the OM61X engines, or am I a party of one?

-Mike
'81 300TD 4 speed

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1981 300TD 4 speed manual
Euro bumpers, zender valance and skirts, H&R springs, billy HD's, leveled sls, real AMG Pentas 16x8 et11, vdo boost/egt gauges intergrated into ash tray, eurolights, led 3rd brake light