Marshall Booth wrote:
The problem is that these discs are used to balance a particular driveshaft. If your's doesn't need one and some don't - that's GREAT, but a driveshaft that's really out of balance will be intolerable (with vibrations - sometimes really nasty - usually between 40-50 mph). One of the driveshaft shops that specializes in Mercedes (most can't do them), can usually make them tolerable, but it will NEVER be the way Mercedes balanced it at the factory.
Yeah, that's one of the things I'm looking into when I take the plunge for the manual conversion on my '80 300TD, getting the driveshaft rebuilt and the old rear half and new front half balanced as a unit. I've got a line on what I've heard is a great shop here in Atlanta, so maybe I'll luck out.
-- John L. Ervine 1981 240D 4-spd 268+kmi 1980 300TD 170+kmi 1980 300SD 277+kmi 1977 280S 4-spd 80+kmi
