Hello, I just bought an '82 300D for WVO conversion and it has a bunch of extra parts, including a transmission. The owner says he parted out a 300SD and got the tranny from it. But the 300D doesn't appear to use the same tranny, at least what I've found on the 'net. How can I tell which car it's from just to make sure he really did get it from a
Michael
A 123 body 300D uses a mechanical speedo cable driven off the tail shaft.
A 126 body 300SD uses an electric speedo driven by a sensor off the tail shaft.
Look at the left side of the tail shaft: large threads for a speedo cable? It's for a 300D. Electric connection? It's for a 300SD.
Thanks, he was right, it's electric.
Karl wrote:
But, aren't they supposed to be interchangeable? A Mechanic I know told me you can change the tailshafts around.
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