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Full throttle upshifts are quite firm, but they shouldn't bang as if something was loose. If you hear and feel a very hard thump from the rear, you are shifting too hard. This is usually a vacuum problem, although it can also be a cable problem. There is a long plastic nut used to adjust the bowden cable, and it can break. Vac lines can leak, too, causing hard shifts.
That said, there is no comparison between an american sloppo tranny (excpet old torqueflights) and the one in the MB. Much, much more positive at all speeds.
Peter
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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!
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