try this guys , mine works great.

3 inch exhaust pipe and 3 inch cheap(4$) re-useable air filter from ebay. weld/glue in some hose fittings for blow-by oil and you're done!

email with questions....cool turbo whistle audible and no air cleaner clatter!

john

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1984 300d turbo with 200k miles
on used filtered ATF

Worth all the $4 and hot air it pulls in!

I'd take some rattles over that.

gotta love that turbo whistle, it runs pretty good too

bordo

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1984 300d turbo with 200k miles
on used filtered ATF

Heh, a while ago, I ran a K&N filter on my 300d in a squeeze for a week, that thing was loud!

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"spreading a trail of obnoxious where ever we go"
1981 300sd w/ 341,500 miles

http://www.wecrash.com/pics/ddda_banner.gif

the replacement tray and grommets were too expensive for me to justify replacing and that pressed steel aircleaner jumping all over the place (and leaking too) was just too loud to take.


bordo

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1984 300d turbo with 200k miles
on used filtered ATF

I hate the stock cleaner too but, that's pretty scary, having a plastic aircleaner directly over the turbine housing. When it gets hot and that molten plastic is sucked into your turbocharger, cheap will not be part of the equation.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

They're $35 or less on ebay for a bracket, mounts, and heatshields.

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

I just bought a pack of 4 "off-road duty" rubber filter mounts from a local foreign car parts place for $10, and got a "OEM quality" sheetmetal mounting bracket on eBay for $16 plus $12.50 shipping. Haven't got it in yet, but seller has 100% positive feedback and has lots of cool MB stuff. The seller had 250 of these brackets at the listed price, the auction went off last night. They go by "benzdepotcom". If this works, then I should be in good shape for less than $40.

I had just completed this fix on an 84 ,the air cleaner bracket was broken and needed a weld to fix,after all was said and done I was out 7.50 for the new rubber air cleaner mounts and a six pack for the welded bracket.I like the setup that original came but your the owner not us.If you mounted a different section and got that filter to the front you would be better off.

Cant wait to get that setup ! I also cant wait to run through a puddle !

please take that off and put it on a honda!

Get a new bracket, get 2' of 3/16" steel rod, cut/bend it to follow the underside of the bracket, weld to the bracket, and never have to replace it again.

I would follow the suggestions of others and go back to the OE setup. If needed, go and get the new air cleaner bracket and rubber mounts, and do this mod which will eliminate the need to replace the bracket often.
http://mbca.cartama.net/showpost.php?p=89120&postcount=3

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

I was looking over my factory setup and was thinking of water ,they really protected the intake well.The flex tube is the 1st defense ,the ridges take the droplets of water and drops them out the small holes in the slits,the air cleaner has a hole as the 2nd defense ,at the tilted most part of the unit.Then of coarse the filter itself as the 3rd .The designed pieces of these diesels work together and they took the air intake very seriously.The german designers worked very hard to build a long lasting car and to short cut that would make a great design into an average one.Not knocking your setup, just praising the factory one.

Most of us ARE knocking your setup.....

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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