I second that. If the wheel lets go the metal shards go right into the engine and it will spew oil uncontrolled into the intake. Worst case this causes a run away.

You should be able to find a diesel shop that can rebuild it for you. I had a US 1998 E300 with the 606 and I am pretty sure it was a KKK turbo. It’s either going to be that or a Garrett.

Should be fairly easy to pull it there is plenty of room down the right side (assuming you are LHD there in Panama).

But yeah you also need to address the root cause so the repaired unit does not fail.

Edit: just looked at the first picture again, you have a KKK turbo, the logo is a triangle with 3 K’s in it, upper left corner of the nameplate (kind of washed out) and also in the casting to the right of the nameplate.

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2014 ML350 Bluetec (wife's DD)
2013 E350 Bluetec (my DD)

both my kids cars went to junkyard in 2023
2008 ML320 CDI (Older son’s DD) fatal transmission failure, water soaked/fried rear SAM, numerous other issues, just too far gone to save (165k miles)
2008 E320 Bluetec (Younger son's DD) injector failed open and diluted oil with diesel, spun main bearings (240k miles)

1998 E300DT sold to TimFreeh
1987 300TD sold to vstech