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Originally posted by tenknots
Wow, you can jack up the engine using the oil pan? Must be made of stronger stuff than old GM cars.
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Heh, just swapped an engine at a garage of a friend of mine who has been doing more and more vintage Mercedes work.
He says, and I agree, that Mercs were made from decent metal, and you notice that when working on them.
It seemed to me that even the jubilee clips on the hoses seemed of better quality than normal. I didn't encounter one problematic bolt or screw (except for the odd access issue) when removing two engines, and the oil pan held up to a heck of a lot of jacking when the installation didn't go quite as well as planned.