drrhein,

You mentioned that there is no vacuam leak, but the rest of your paragraph STRONGLY suggests that you do have a vacuam leak. Have you put a vacuam guage on to verify that there is no leak?

If you haven't used a test guage yet, I believe that you need to do that. If the vacuam is low, say 15" or less at idle. You need to start the search for your vacuam leak. I expect that the leak is significant if it is effecting your transmission modulator.

Good luck,

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Larry Bible
'84 Euro 240D, 516K miles
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