Originally Posted by buckwheat

You've got to be out of your mind? Go ahead and triffle with a late model MB transmission to prove your manhood. As you're counting your chest hairs your ignorance of this issue will certainly cost unknowing forum members dearly.

I'll post MB's stance on such flippant toying with transmissions here shortly as soon as I find it buried. It goes on for 4 pages of failure identification and reasoning behind a lengthy list of tranny failures, most caused by owners using sub-standard materials with sub-standard home brew methods. When interviewed, most owners retorted something like "my friend said it worked on his 89 model xxx for 10 years"

Coming shortly, I've got it in pdf form. It's SB 99-100-19928 and specifically deals with this sort of stupidity