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lurtch

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confusion about our engine blocks
« on: May 03, 2006, 18:07:22 »
Hello All - -

There is an M130 engine block on ebay right now. The photo shows that there are only four main bearings. Is it ONLY the M130.983 that has seven mains?

See - ebay - - Mercedes 280se 280sl 2.8 engine block     Item number: 4635459384

Confused,    Larry in CA
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Re: confusion about our engine blocks
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2006, 19:28:18 »
Hello lurch,

All M130 engines had seven main bearings.  It is probably a M180 engine with three main bearings.

Joe Alexander
Blacklick, Ohio
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Joe Alexander
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Vince Canepa

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Re: confusion about our engine blocks
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2006, 06:15:36 »
It does not appear to have the wtaer slots between the cylinders that the M130 had.  From the pics I think it might be a M127.

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TheEngineer

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Re: confusion about our engine blocks
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2006, 21:17:35 »
It's definitely NOT a 280 something block! All 280's have a bearing between each cylinder and a double roller chain. Congratulations to all of you who didn't fall for that one!
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Re: confusion about our engine blocks
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2006, 23:16:42 »
Hello Larry,

The seller is completely wrong. Notice the block has no place for an injection pump! This is a 230 series block M180. This was from a carbureted 230 sedan, probably a finback. The 230 series were the only Mercedes of the era with single roller timing chains and four main bearings.

Joe Alexander
Blacklick, Ohio
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Joe Alexander
Blacklick, Ohio
1969 Dark Olive 280SL
2002 ML55 AMG (tow vehicle)
2002 SLK32 AMG (350 hp)
1982 300TD Wagon turbo 4spd.
1963 404 Mercedes Unimog (Swedish Army)
1989 flu419 Mercedes Unimog (US Army)
1998 E430
1974 450SLC Rally
1965 220SE Finback

A Dalton

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Re: confusion about our engine blocks
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2006, 07:51:25 »
I spoke via email with the poster a couple of days ago and he acknowledged that he had  made a listing error . He was quite nice about it and has pulled the listing for the error..
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