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Benz Mondi · #13 02-17-2012, 11:07 PM

Of all the fixes I found from all the help on this forum, the K1 spring kit may be the #1 fix of all time. Wow for a whole $10 !!!!!!! I'm still shaking my head. Talk about an ear to ear smile!

For that price I ordered two from Phil just in case I broke one. My flaring is not only gone, but it shifts off the line like I've never felt before. Perhaps this is the way it feels when the tranny is new and not with 200K on the clock.

Here's the back story, I just paid $2,000 to have my '93 300SL's tranny rebuilt by my long time MBZ indie. It didn't have quite the same flaring problem, more a slower and slower creep off the line, almost no bite if I came to a full stop on a hill. I sure wish I had seen this fix in the SL section when I did my search and did my tech help posting. I would feel a lot better if I had at least tried the K1 fix first before plunking down the $2K. I digress...

I shudder to think how many 124's have been sent to the junk yard by their unsuspecting owners thinking that they had a multi-thousand dollar transmission fix on their hands for lack of this $10 bit of knowledge?

When we bought this 90 300E 2.6 for my son as a college car, it was always slow to get going as compared to our 3.0 liter 300E. The 2.6 already had 180k on the clock. I just figured that is was just a little tired. Now I'm thinking that a K1 spring kit fix would have been the answer all along.

Here's a thought, even if you don't have the flaring issue, if you've got over 150K on your tranny and you're going to do a tranny fluid and filter change anyway, why not go ahead and do the K1 and get it over with?

Now it's only been less than an hour since I got back from giving it a test drive of up to freeway speeds and back. I sure hope that I don't find that my miracle, cinderella-coach of a fix doesn't turn into a punmpkin of a bummer in the morning.

Don't think so, though.
Thanks for all the help fellas!

Al