I'm still on the prowl for a wagon but I need more info.
1. What is the engine setup on an '82 wagon. There's one I found with a 6 cyl., would this be a 3.0 or 3.5 and where's the info?
2. Do they ever come with 5 cyls.?
3. Is the 5 preferable to the 6?
4. Is the 3.5 really bad as some of the archives of this site suggest?
5. What is the compresion on these engines(any/all of the above) and as I've only done gas compresion checks, how does a diesel compresion check change from that of a gas?
6. Finally, I've noticed that there are 300Ds out there with manual trannies....If I had a donor car how hard is the auto to manual modification (I have an unreaonable fear of autos).

Any answers would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks in advance, Patrick.

Thanks for the information so far, now if I had the right compresion tester, what would the compresion be and with what possible variance?
When I looked at the posts for diesels it seemed the price for a rebuild was a little high so I'm trying to be careful, I've rebuilt engines before, but if the parts cost too much the whole process gets a little painful.
Thank you for your help and happy holidays, Patrick.