Hello All,
Before hotrodding (IC and modified IP) my 87 300TD and after reading all of the horror stories regarding timing chain failures etc I figures I better check mine out first.
My car luckily came with all the docs and history, I mean, I have never seen such a complete history report, brouchures, window sticker, dealer maintenance reports from mile 5 to 200k. Anyhow, nowhere does it state the timing chain has been replaced, matter of fact, outside of AC troubles and oil changes, nothing else was reported in the history. The orginal owner also does not recall changing the TC.
This 603 still has the #14, so I guess routine maintenance is Key to limiting chain wear. I followed the chain stretch measuring procedures, lined up the cam marks and checked the crank marks 5 times around, each time coming up with 0 deg. of difference...well once it showed 0.5 deg, but I think I was slightly off at the cam, not the best marking method used by MB IMHO.
Anyhow, is this usual? unusual? my baby has 215k mi and so far from eyeballing it 0 timing chain wear? Any comments
The engine internals from what I could see were very clean, and the cam lobes looked really nice, very clean, obviously well cared for.