I wish I had read of your struggles before I took mine out earlier this week. I spent like 3-4 hours today trying to get the new one in. I don't think it is possible while the tranny is in the car. There is just NO way to get it seated, and I think I may have broken it in the process. It's easy to get the old one back in because the o-ring is pretty flattened out.

I just don't know what to do now. With my experiences so far (several attempts just to get old one out, now stumped getting new one in) I think it's ridiculous that anyone would say its a reasonable idea to do this with the transmission installed. I want to roll my car off a cliff after today!

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Andrew
Montclair, NJ
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1982 300D Turbo
120k
Petrol Blue Green