I've noticed that my turbo is leaking oil, insert all comments here, and the main one looks to be where it attaches to the intake. I believe these are two round seals that i can replace relatively easy but are there any other seals i can do 'while' I'm doing this from the top. I know that i can do the oil return line but then i need to do the oil pan, then i can do the....... you see what I mean when i say from the top down and relatively easy to do.

Thanks for all the help.

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Rick & Michele in California
1985 300SD Turbo Deisel
300,000+ miles

1963 Mercury Meteor Stationwagon
1959 Montgomery Ward Silver Pigeon Scooter & matching bicycle
1974 IH Scout 4x4

Are you saying you have a oil leak between the compressor outlet and the intake manifold? You should not have oil in there, maybe a slight film, but not enough for a significant leak. Your turbo's internal seals may have gone, or you may have a lot of oil mist from the breather on the valve cover due to high blow-by (the breather connects to the tubing between the air filter and the turbo on the CA cars and there is no oil separator). Find the source of the oil and stop it or you may have a runaway engine soon.

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1979 240D- 316K miles - VGT Turbo, Intercooler, Stick Shift, Many Other Mods - Daily Driver

1982 300SD - 232K miles - Wife's Daily Driver

1986 560SL - Wife's red speed machine

Thanks for the info. I'll check some more. I heard the term, run away engine, before. What does that mean.?

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Rick & Michele in California
1985 300SD Turbo Deisel
300,000+ miles

1963 Mercury Meteor Stationwagon
1959 Montgomery Ward Silver Pigeon Scooter & matching bicycle
1974 IH Scout 4x4

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Charlie

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there were three HP ratings on the OM616...

1) Not much power
2) Even less power
3) Not nearly enough power!! 240D w/auto

Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

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