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Hello everyone

I let a guy work off some of what he owed me by putting a transmission
into a 1982 300D for me.

The tranny was from a 1985, and was working when I gave it to him.

Now he says he has it installed and when he puts it in gear
nothing happens.

What do you think he screwed up ?

Thanks
RichC
Have Fun !


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He probably forgot to put oil in it.

Not unlikely. I have witnessed the aftermath of just such an incident. Unfortunately it was on a manual transmission, which appeared to function normally for about 50 miles or so. By the time it started acting up, the Navy was out something like $15,000, not to mention the lost time of having to scrounge up another 8LL Roadranger in Iraq

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83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Is the engine running while he does this?

Seriously, he might have neglected to connect the driveshaft.

maybe he forgot to install the torque converter

Charlie

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1) Not much power
2) Even less power
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Anyone that thinks a 240D is slow drives too fast.

80 240D Naturally Exasperated, 4-Spd 388k DD 150mph spedo 3:58 Diff

We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Funny how that works

Or at least not enough. Takes a lot of fluid to fill the converter and transmission.

Man, if he forgot to connect the driveshaft you might want to wait until he pays the rest rather than have him do any more work for you!!

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1998 E300 +310,000K
1996 E300 +460,000K

Isn't an '85 transmission different from that on an '82? I think it's regulated differently too so maybe that's where the problem is.

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Nope, it just has a tach pickup on the bell housing and a different stall speed torque converter.
Now, this was from a D and not an SD, right?
{He thinks out loud: "Was there something about the input bearing being a different size?" He remembers thinking isn't his strong suit and backs away quietly......}

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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

Or.... dude sold good transmission for a few hundred, and put a $50.00 pick-n-pull tranny in the car.

Don't laugh, I have heard of guys putting used clutches in cars ad returning the new parts for $$$ to the parts store.

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The working tranny was from a 1985 300 SD.

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Does the torque converter need to be filled before it is installed into the transmission, or will it fill when you fill the rest of the transmission with fluid ?

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I did make sure that he had filled the transmission with fluid.

Anyone know the fluid capacity of the 1985 transmission ?

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

Dry fill is going to be 7.7 Qts (7.3L) on the 300SD 722.303 transmission.

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It fills when the transmission fills

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1998 E300 +310,000K
1996 E300 +460,000K

The doofus that did that was as usual, too smart to follow instructions from his superiors. The superior in question being Jesse James, and the order being "Make sure you fill the torque converter before you install the transmission!".

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