It effects it indirectly. Assume you adjsut your alda, get better power, especialy off the line. You now have your foot at a lesser throttle position but are accelerating quicker and putting more power to the trans and driveline. But the poor dumb transmission has only the throttle position (84 and older) to tell it what's going on. So, your now accelerating harder with less throttle, you have soft shifts, which is exactly what you do not need in this case. As *neat* as the system MB designed is, and despite the fact it was probibly very good for it's day, it has a lot of flaws. I imagine if you made any real low end power gains you'd see some real funkyness. All these systems interplay with each other, all of them, connected or not.

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One more Radar Lover gone...
1982 VW Caddy diesel 406K 1.9L AAZ
1994 E320 195K

What would cause a slight 2-3 shift "flaring" only when cold? Out of adjustment?

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2004 Toyota Sequoia Limited 4wd
1991 Lincoln Town Car Executive
1991 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1988 Mercedes 300SEL
1972 Chevrolet Caprice Kingswood Estate 9-passenger wagon
1973 Pontiac Grand Ville
(Prior MB's: 1974 240D, 1985 380SE, 1984 190D, 1993 400SEL)

I had that one for a long time. It was a vacuum leak.

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Michael LaFleur

'05 E320 CDI - 86,000 miles
'86 300SDL - 360,000 miles
'85 300SD - 150,000 miles (sold)
'89 190D - 120,000 miles (sold)
'85 300SD - 317,000 miles (sold)
'98 ML320 - 270,000 miles (sold)
'75 300D - 170,000 miles (sold)
'83 Harley Davidson FLTC (Broken again) :-(
'61 Plymouth Valiant - 60k mikes
2004 Papillon (Oliver)
2005 Tzitzu (Griffon)
2009 Welsh Corgi (Buba)

I have that too, along with most other odd transmission things normal for these cars.

Changed the fluid again yesterday, yet again, the pan was absolutly spotless.
Looked as clean as it did 30K miles ago. But I still can't get a consistantly good 3/4 shift. Oh well.

There sure is a lot of plastic in that tranny looking at the valve body.

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One more Radar Lover gone...
1982 VW Caddy diesel 406K 1.9L AAZ
1994 E320 195K