Yes, that's the right position in the sequence.

Max
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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>
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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
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> 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
>>
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