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Originally Posted by SD Blue
Your "definitive" answer will be to measure the width of the differential. As previously mentioned, one is 185mm and the other is 210mm. I swapped the entire axle/differential combo to eliminate sourcing spacers. You will likely need to replace the pinion yoke. Here is a good video from YouTube "university" that explains how:
Diff rebuild - how to set pinion bearing preload Ep.1 #1023
Andy the Mechanic
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Instead of the yoke swap, i got a r107 driveshaft rear section from a friend and i measured it and it's the same size as the w123's one.
you said you swapped the entire axle/diff combo.
does that mean you just swapped the r107 diff as well as the 2 axles that go between the wheels and that's it ? and the 2 axles you used were the ones that came with the r107 diff ? as i have those, they came with it.
i looked up on wikipedia the r107 and w123 have a different wheelbase width, so i am a little concerned that even if i use the r107 cv axles, it will push the wheels out too far.
r107 = 70.5 inches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_R107_and_C107
w123 = 70.2 inches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes-Benz_W123