Gave up on the AC leak for today!!
You never really know, but the old fluid actually looked very good. Excellent in fact. But I bought the wagon a year ago, and you just never know.
I also had to replace the two short flexible lines right at the radiator, which was my major leak of the car. Also, I started off by going to spray wash and spending 75 cents on cleaning off underneath the car. Recommended.....
Took almost 3 hours, but I'm an obsessive cleaner and tend to piddle around when doing things. The pan was spotless. Completely. One thing different on this wagon than the '80 wagon: you could spin the torque converter with a screw driver on the '80, but NOT the '85. I used somebody's advice: Socket on crank pulley with ratchet pointing down. Right foot on left front tire, right hand (both hands sometimes) on ratchet, and eyeballs on torque converter looking for drain plug. Works perfect! The T.C. draining makes quite the mess, as it "glugs" the whole time. I love the MB gaskets, and let me say one thing. The gasket for the six bolt pans is 100% easier to place and stay than the 4 pan bolt trannies. It's a gasket like the valve cover.
Went with a Mann filter, 2/3 bottle of TransEx, and Mobil 1. 6 quarts and it appears to be about 1/2 qt low, but it's all I had for now.
Not at all hard to do, and can be done much faster than I did it today. I was just killin time and enjoying the day.

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John