I am doing the transmission service on my 84 300D. Changing the fluid, filter and gasket. Drained the torque converter too with a little help from my son turning the engine so I could line up the drain plug.

So I dropped the pan down after the fluid drained out and saw that there was still a considerable amount of fluid in the pan because the drain plug is not at the low point of the pan. Does anyone have a good explanation as to why the MB engineers did not locate the drain plug at the low point? My only guess is that you might want to see if there is any debris collecting in the pan that would allow you to diagnose a transmission problem.

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