I looked in my Technical Data Manual and they said:
"steering damper on drag link or console side member..50Nm."

So now we see three different values from MB publications

Obviously not too, too critical or it was free beer Friday when the engineers decided on a torque value on the damper .

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1984 300SD (bought new, sold it in 1988, bought it back 13 yrs. later)