I had to "school" the parts man this a.m. in Grand Rapids, he tried to sell me th wrong oil filter for my '76 300D. He told me he had oil filters for "every" model of Mercedes, and then handed me a filter for my '84 300TD-T I don't remember his part # but it was the same as the Mann PF 1055/1X you know the "tall guy" Well I tried to tell him it was the wrong filter and he told me I was mistaken, that it was the proper filter for the year and application. I argued back that it would take tremendous pressures to push that filter down into my housing , which was only about half that tall and smaller in diameter. He finally went and searched the micro-fische and came back with a printout of the diagram and said "this is what your system looks like" I said yes, it is. I'm aware of what it looks like, I WORK ON CARS EVERY DAY!!! Now that YOU know, do you have a filter? NO, "I will have to order it, you can pick it up tomorrow sometime after noon" I thanked him and said make it 2 filters and you can send them to my house, as I'm not going to drive all the way back up here for a couple of filters that should be "in stock" at a dealer. After all, he said he had "every known MB oil filter in stock" , right? Where do they get these guys? Anyways, is there anywhere I can get these filters maybe by the case at a discount? I really go through the filters and oil and would like to "stock up" if at all possible. BTW Jim if you are out here, I wouldn't park my car where you did on Wed. I had an old Impala parked there when I bowled the midnight league and a car slid into the parking lot and really messed it up! I would hate to see that 240 in that kind of way! :~) Tom