You need to find a differential shop and send them over. Other than a major component, like a ring or pinion, I can’t imagine they couldn’t rebuild them back to new.
Let me ask around… -D Sent from my iPad > On Jun 7, 2023, at 3:51 PM, Frederick Moir via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > My 1987 300TD had a whine somewhere aft. So being a genius I replaced the > diff assembly, and it still whined. > Center bearing, only six months old, was talking to me. Replaced it and > viola quiet as can be. > YMMV. > Fred > >> On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 3:16 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> I had similar trouble with my '85 190D. It got very loud before I replaced >> it and the replacement was just as loud as that which I removed. >> >> The problem here would be, apparently, the fact that they're so good in >> the first place. Remember we're talking about nearly 40 year old cars here. >> It's pretty unlikely a diff from an American or Japanese car of the same >> vintage won't have had work done to it already. Nobody makes a rebuild kit >> because we've never needed a rebuild kit since they didn't fail in the >> first 30 years. >> >> Seems like a business opportunity for somebody entrepreneurial which I'm >> not... >> >> -Curt >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 02:47:24 PM EDT, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Has anyone else run into a serial differential swapping issue? I have been >> through about four differentials in the past year on the 300td and the >> 560sel. Originals started whining so I thought I was doing a good thing by >> swapping, but then the replacement on the wagon seems to have blown a seal >> and is trying to seize up while the 560 locked up tight on the 405 >> yesterday leaving the car in the slow lane and me running upstream on the >> other side of the jersey wall frantically waving off traffic like that guy >> in Team America, just waiting for someone to plow into it until the chp >> arrived to shut the whole freeway down. Total drag. >> >> I would happily put a new or factory rebuild in, but since they are nla and >> no one can figure out the rebuild, I guess its back to boneyard roulette! >> >> I thought these things never went out, but as serious transportation >> solution this is making my cars sort of a joke. Time for a Bolt or a second >> Lexus or something I guess. My Dad has a pickup he has been trying to get >> me to drive, so maybe that is the answer. I have never experienced this >> problem before, but there doesnt seem to be a reliable solution. I can >> recall taking the diff out of our 55 convertible in the 1990s and taking it >> to the diff shop to get it rebuilt. Doesnt seem that hard. For some reason >> a mercedes diff is just a paperweight when it is worn out. Unbelievably >> stupid engineering. >> >> On Wed, Jun 7, 2023, 9:15 AM Bob Rentfro via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >>> https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/907861446943871/v >>> >>> >>> >>> AZBob >>> >>> >>> >>> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >>> Windows >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://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 >> >> 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 >> >> 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 >> >> > > -- > Fred Moir > Lynn MA > Diesel preferred > _______________________________________ > http://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 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
