'Tried to read # on my '87 300D head few minutes ago; 'looks like 603 016
1(maybe 4, can't be sure - not clear) etc.; so, is my head a 16 or a 14; I
suspect it's a 14; 'never heard/known anything about its being changed. No
prob with it now that I can tell. 123 kmi.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Frederick" <psf...@earthlink.net>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 87 300TD is this an OK car?
That engine was sold in various versions (4, 5, and 6 cylinder) from 1984
to 1995 or so. The original design was part # 14, and it failed in
service enough that by 1993 when the SDL was sold again it had the #17
head on it (nine years later(.
The #14 was used on all OM603 engines sold in the US in 1986 and 1987,
and probably all of them have cracked by now. If failed in normal
service, not as a result of overheating, which can crack any of them.
I'm not sure which one I had on the old 300D, the current car has had it
replaced with a newer version.
Peter
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