Hello All!

Found a nice W115 '75 300D with a bad motor (bad knock) and thought that since the 75 motor is a normally aspirated OM617 motor, could'nt I just use a used OM617TD long block (minus turbo) and just hang all the original manifolds, IP, etc off this stripped down OM617 from a later year? Any problems that anyone foresees? Seems like the North Bay has plenty of used engines, I have two available to choose from, one as little as two hundred bucks that comes with a '83 300sd with a bad trans-engine has about 180,00 on it. My current '82 300sd has over 360,000 miles on it and still turns heads - I must say, I love the 115's!