If there's any visible crud in the tranny's pan, the filter will be sufficiently clogged to cause reduced fluid fluw internally causing just the initial complaint .

The need to always do the basics first never changes because the laws of physics never change .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better