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d.delano · #10 11-13-2011, 11:37 PM

I thought I saw in your last post that the ATSG book said the drive lug on the pump gear had to be pointed up. Did you do what the book told you to do? I think I read that you stated you put it in misaligned because it was 'impossible to do it' the way the book told you.

My point is if you did it any other way than the book told you to do it, there's your problem. I mean, why do you think the book tells you to do it a certain way? Because the tech authors know you will do it another way? It's an automatic transmission. You shouldn't play around with it like that. You did it wrong and there's your problem.

If I'm missing something here then please correct me. You had a functioning transmission with a leak before you did the work. You now have a nonshifting transmission. Coincidence? Happenstance? Freak occurrence? No. You made it happen with the work you did. Perhaps your next move should be to go back in and reverse whatever it was that you did wrong. I'd bet big money if you went back in there and aligned the drive lug like you were supposed to you would get to 4th gear again.

See this is why you don't muck around with automatic transmissions unless you have the expertise. They aren't usually shadetreeable items.

You have a distinct edge however, Sun Valley Mercedes Dismantlers is in the SoCal area. They are probably the best MB transmission rebuilders in the country aside from perhaps MB. You have an out, come what may. Good luck to you.