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Originally Posted by Diesel911
The cracked Air Filter Bracket is common. If the engine is shaking you need to do what is needed to calm it down or it can happen again. I guess I lucked out with mine. My engine shook a lot but the mounts on the bracket loosened instead of it cracking.
Also from this forum there is a fix where you put a 3/4 or 1 inch ID section about 8 inches long of heater hose under the Air Filter Housing where it hangs over the Cylinder head/Valve Cover. That limits the distance it can vibrate.
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Sweet, thanks.
Both my engine mounts/shocks were beyond destroyed when I got the car, along with 5 injector nozzles needing replaced, a glow plug broken in the pre-chamber, and that injector cracked. Needless to say it shook the entire car. After fixing all that it's as smooth as can be. But obviously that shaking that had been going on for who knows how long had weakened the bracket.
My valve cover gasket weeps a little, but I'm pretty sure this is that feed line since I just removed it from the turbo to snake the air cleaner bracket out. Plus, my car wouldn't leak even a drop of oil before and now it's pouring down the back of the engine.
There is one 300d in a junkyard nearby. If I can't fix this line I'm going to try to snag that one. That car is very very very bad though... I looked at it pre-junkyard and it was way too far gone. And that's bad if I'm saying that IMO