The price I mentioned is for removing the transmission, disassembly, evaluation, replacement of defective parts and all clutches and seals, reinstallations, fluids and adjustments. This is what is commonly called rebuilding the transmission.

I almost never buy MB rebuilds because they are not cost effective for me or the client. We have probably rebuilt 300 or more 722.3 transmissions and part of what makes it work is that we have multiple cores in stock to handle the expensive hard parts when the issue arises, which won't in your case. The reverse clutch issue is rather straight forward and actually could be done without a complete disassembly but the units are old enough now that doing part of a job is not cost efficient as the results would be considerably more than half the cost and the long term effects would be little more than installing a used unit.

The issue with repairing your car is that whatever you do in the future the car has to be usable to be disposable.

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Steve Brotherton
Continental Imports
Gainesville FL
Bosch Master, ASE Master, L1
33 years MB technician