So I got up early today and took my box of new parts out to the garage, transmission filter at the ready. It was my first time under a car in about 20 years and I'm a little sore.

So I dropped the pan, changed the filter and also changed my shifter bushings. Actually, change would imply that I removed the old ones but amazingly I found metal on metal on both sides of the linkage. All went pretty well and the car is still on the stands. I have the subframe bushings and sway bar bushings ready to go. I also want to see if I can get to the TC drain plug to drain that as well but I don't think I'll be pulling the exhaust cross pipe to get to it. The trans fluid actually looked good so I'm not too worried if I don't.

Oh, and I broke a lug net yesterday so I have drilling that out to look forward to.

This forum has definitely made the work easier. Many thanks to those who took the time to post.

Matt.

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1984 380 SL (Helga)