Summary of long winded ramblings below: I need a transmission linkage diagram for a W114 1976 280C.

Before I bought the 1976 280C I gave her the twice over. Took it for a test drive and backed up a few times, everything was working great. Then after driving it an hour and a half home to the hanger I parked it to begin the real evaluation the next day.

Well I got to the hanger and wanted to back it up so that I would have more room to look over the engine. No reverse….. When I went to back it up for the test drive the rear of the vehicle lifted quite a bit. More than my W126 lifts when I put that in reverse. I am pretty damn positive the linkage just needs to be adjusted. I also noticed an electronic box under the hood which had adjustments labeled with things such as “shift points” and other things that led me to believe it was a control box for the transmission.

Either way this is my first W114 and I don’t have a repair book for it yet and didn’t find anything online in regards to transmission linkage so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Bryan Plaunt

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Current vehicles the wife and I are restoring:
1966 W111 230S - near completetion
1976 280C - the wife's toy
1981 300SD - is already a beauty