OK, so I am in the middle of putting a regular 1980 240D engine and manual tranny into the body of a 1983 240d automatic california emissions.

my problem is this: i cannot figure out whether to swap the emissions stuff from out engine to new one. if i dont, than i have all these extra vaccum lines coming from god knows where.

also, i need the throttle linkage from the callifornia car, because the one from the normal engine is damaged. however, the throttle inkage is connected to intake manifold on california car. so i would have to swap that too.

so should i swap all the stuff and play it safe, so that i dont have any wierd vaccum promblems, or should i go to a junkyard and get a normal throttle linkage? would the linkage from a 1980 300D work? is it the same?

thanks for any input you can provide....

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Sean Roland

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