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Thanks go out to the folks who have voted so far and to the folks who have sent me PMs about this.
I think before this goes any further I need to come clean!
I have a copy of the German W123 FSM and in that copy there is a great description of how these hydro-mechanical-(mostly vacuum controlled) transmissions work => or more importantly are meant to work. The only problem is that it is in German.
My German language skills are kind of limited to car part names - but I do speak Dutch so I can kind of get along with it if I scratch my head and use an online translator tool...
...it probably wouldn't be a very accurate translation but it would at least provide a functional description of these transmissions in English. I'd like to see something like this on the internet so that everyone who struggles with these transmissions has something as a basic reference.
My hope is that once people understand what these bizarre things are meant to be doing then the whole fault finding process becomes a bit more managable.
However, the thing is - if I can find a copy of a pre-translated version then a lot of effort and work is saved.
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