thanks for the input, but it was my girlfriend's car, and her father is really into these cars, he is the one who got me into these cars, and he came over and found that it was the alternator bearing that had gone bad, and it began hitting the fan. I trust he is right on this because he knows a whole hell of a lot more about these cars than I do now. He is the one with the intercooled turbo thread with all the pictures.

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1981 240D/297K/4-spd/OM617 (mine)
1982 240D/241K/4-spd (wife's)
1979 240D/291K/4-spd/OM617 (father-in-law's)
1983 300DT/240K/4-spd (brother-in-law's)
1985 300DT/???K/5-spd Intercooler conversion (brother-in-law's)
1985 280TE/160K/5-spd (father-in-law's)
1963 UNIMOG (brother-in-law's)