No. I second babymog on friction material getting into the fluid. I ran Mobil 1 synthetic and I thought I could get away with a 45k interval because it was synthetic. Wrong. I got a howling in my trans. I took off the filter and it was clogged with non magnetic sludge.

I had the tranny rebuilt at Sun Valley transmission. One of the best 722.x rebuilders out there. They said clogging the filter will kill the bushing on the pump as it gets starved for lubrication. Once that goes you loose pressure and you damage your friction plates which in turn dump more material into your fluid. See where this is going? Positive feedback. My bushing was loose and making noise according to their diagnosis.

Marc the owner stressed that fluid should be changed at 24k intervals. I will take his advice given his track record with MB transmissions.

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79 300TD “Old Smokey” AKA “The Mistake” (SOLD)
82 240D stick shift 335k miles (SOLD)
82 300SD 300k miles
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