I've been mildly preparing for this for the past several weeks. Well, tonight with the wife's help (believe it or not), I moved the 300D from the rock parking area, to my 6' strip of concrete in front of the garage. That Ford tractor is still my best diesel...
The project:
remove 5 cyl. with broken chain , tranny, driveshaft, pedals, etc....
From my wrecked 240D (Scar), swap engine/tranny (manual), drive shaft, pedals, brake booster and master cyl., radiator, etc........ basically whatever it takes to complete the swap.
This car won't ever be worth much, but at least I own both vehicles, so cash outlay from here will be as little as possible. I just want a manual diesel Mercedes to drive, so I'll see over the next few weeks and months if I can pull it off.
This thread is just to document the journey, and see what happens. Who knows, if it ever is drivable, I may try to swap the entire manual climate "stuff" also. I've never pulled an engine before, much less a swap like this, but it will keep me from watching so much TV maybe.....
Wish me luck, and prepare for questions as I go.........

btw, 300D = 1977, 240D = 1981

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John