Originally Posted by homepagz

Few things to be careful of here. I had the exact failure on my 300D.

The plastic part was designed as the failure point in the event there is a seized item in the secondary pump and governor area. Something must have seized to allow that failure point to be destroyed.

On mine - once it was replaced - the car shifted fine for a few hundred miles until it was torn up again. It turned out the secondary pump was seizing and had to be fixed.

So - it may be working now - but if you haven't found the original cause - it may happen again.

-John