Exactly what I was thinking too...perhaps the piston cracked and is still allowing some pressure to build (enough for a slippery shift) but not what it would when working normally....

I'd check the B2, my bets are that something happened to it, especially since the problem is in gears 1 and 2, and it happened so suddenly.

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