This engine is from my 1981 Mercedes 380SEL I purchased on ebay for $330. The seller told me not to drive it until I replaced the timing chain guides. Well, I never had time to mess with the car before I moved. So the rusty car car was picked clean of its good parts and scrapped in a previous video, but I still have this engine sitting in my garage.
This 3.8L V8 producing a laughable by today’s standards 155 HP. The early 80’s were tough times. Nobody locally wants anything to do with this motor and its Bosch Jetronic mechanical fuel injection, but I know these parts will sell on ebay. So today I’m going to disassemble the entire thing… in about 9 minutes. I find the pieces of a broken timing chain guide, as well as a cracked oil pump. Otherwise, the engine looks great for having 124k miles.
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