I think I have found an indie who is willing to work with me on this. He seems to be of the right mindset as he has an immaculate Triumph TR6 and a 1960's Land Rover.

Here's the entire program of work:

- badly leaking transmission front seal
- suspected oil leak in engine rear main seal
- diff oil seal leak
- beginnings of cracks in flex disk
- time to replace all flexible brake hoses
- front control arm bushings beginning to age
- do the transmission mount when we're in there
- replace that bearing thingy on the prop shaft while we're in there

It seems to me that I need access to the facilities of an equipped garage and skills beyond mine to do this program of work. The engine still runs fine!

Question - while we're in there with the tranny pulled, is there anything else we should look at? The car has 115,000 miles on it (US vehicle imported to Canada).

Some days I want to throw this one away and buy a different 380SL, but I could have exactly the same sort of issues with a new one. Comments and thoughts on where I am headed are welcome as this will be an expensive set of repairs. These little buggers are much more complex than my 300SD but the wife loves the car