how old is the trans fluid? it may be overdue....I would suck out a quart from the fill tube and put in one quart of trans-X and change it in a few hundred miles (with new seal and filter) ...see if that helps before you develope a stomach ulcer.

__________________
Proud owner of ....
1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
---------------------
Section 609 MVAC Certified
---------------------
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche