I don't know how it is on your car, but on mine the pink pod was accessible once I had the climate control system out. It's way back in there towards the upper right. I am sure there are other pods that were bad, but for some reason that single pod's vacuum had a significant effect on the shifting of the tranny.

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87 300D - Running on Veggie oil; 260,000 plus miles; Original #14 head