JT - got it. Had intended to do it this AM but wife is dragging me to Stone Mountain. Maybe this afternoon.

Thanks for the feedback.

There must something different about the way MB designed the downshift. In most instances you will be off the throttle when it needs to downshift so the vac should have climbed to max; that would seem to give you a harsh downshift except that MB must have designed something to handle it. On the upshift you generally are giving it throttle and the vac is going away so a smooth upshift. But on the downshift the opposite is true. So how did they design it to downshift?