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Old 05-26-2011, 12:03 AM
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careful there! posting just for effect can get an infraction now that the trolling rule is up on the main page...
Acknowledged. I didn't know. I repent.

I didn't troll, I maintain my original theory. But when grown men flare up over nothing I have to have some fun.

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Old 05-26-2011, 12:05 AM
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if you've done a 400, you can handle a 700r4/4l60 just an extra port on the valve body, and a fancy TC...
the MB is actually easier to work on, VERY VERYVERY robust set of steels! easily 3 times the material as a chevy and twice as many clutches! very strong. no wonder they last so much longer than a chevy trans.
if ONLY they used steel sleeves on the operating passages, the thing would be nigh indestructable. hard rubber digs into aluminum passages. I think at 250K if someone went and replaced all the orings with new and resealed the thing, it'd last to 500K easy. I ought to gather a "johnny rebuild" kit and start doing them...
I don't know if I have another tranny rebuild in me It's good to know that these are good transmissions. I haven't dug into the adjustments but I soon will. Probably just figure out the bowden cable and vacuum modulator and leave it alone.

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Old 05-26-2011, 12:10 AM
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Well, I'm grown. I've replaced transmissions, installed shift kits in US transmissions, even rebuilt several TH350's and a TH400. Never got into an overdrive but I'll bet I could handle a 700r4.

Anyway, those are my creds. I have ZERO MB trans creds and I don't think it's a good idea to transfer tricks from US transmissions to German transmissions.

I thought I had heard every voo-doo remedy known to the automotive world but this is new to me.

I gotta hear the rationale...
Yes, you rebuilt them because they were broken... but I will concede. I pull the trannys and give them to my tranny guy.

And if you say no transfer of trick, that's fine by me.

Rational? Tranny fluid can eats things. Old tranny fluid needs less to eat because it has already eating. New fluid is hungry. I can offer several other scenarios all of which will be increasingly sophisticated, as that was the most ridiculous. Or, we can all say we are bored, as I am, then call me the idiot, and shut this discussion down.

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