[quote]ORIGINAL: dieseldan

Turk the engine had a "green block" For some reason the cast iron was soft maybe not a good mix. I bought a mercedes 220D used from the dealer it was a year old and same problem They replaced the engine no charge and it this was in 1969 it ran well I finally sold in in 1982 with over 300,000 miles on it and ran another 2 years before being destroyed in a crash by the new owner.I did not make up the green block thing this is what I told by mercedes and they had a a few out there and just replaced the engines at no charge to the owner It made weekly trips to Atlanta
Ga and Orlando Fl the kid was in college up there and never had an other issue till it s demise martin

It got replaced with a nissan maxima with the L28 egine this was a diesel variant of the L 24 gas which had a hot version in the 240Z , 6 cyl in line overhead cam it was pretty quick and later dropped too bad.
seems to be a similar story with our model diesel availablity

\As far as the Little ones there was an overhead cam 4 strk glow (german) that uses a timing belt (forgot name)
but an awsome runner and also now gone priced higher than YS the local HS had one sorry I did not buy it, used but good shape maybe about a 60??