Yes, that's the right position in the sequence. Max -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: Well, it looks like a 4 more than anything else. The opening in the 4 is fairly well closed - not a clear point on left side, but I think it's a 4. Is it in the right place in the number to denote 14, 16, etc., - 2 digits by themselves. Wilton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Dillon" <meadedil...@bellsouth.net> To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 3:42 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] 87 300TD is this an OK car? > That's a 14 head, if the digit you're not sure of is a 4. > > Max > -- > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > WILTON <wilt...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > > '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 >> >>_____________________________________________ > >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > >_____________________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > >_____________________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _____________________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com