Well thanks for feeling my pain and for the advice. I'll try the 20 miles and the longer idle time, I guess, although my girlfriend thinks I'm being neurotic about this and I'm sure to hear comments when I go to check it yet again. She's right, of course.

Now if it really is way overfilled, or even a little overfilled, wouldn't someone (me or the PO) have noticed some sign of this? From what I've read, overfilling the tranny is very bad and will lead to excessive wear quickly. Could it be that everything might be working as well as it is even after 10K miles with overfilled tranny fluid? From what I've read the hard shifts are usually a vacuum issue and not a fluid issue.

Thanks!

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Ralph

1985 300D Turbo, CA model
248,650 miles and counting...