Thanks!!

Another thing I forgot- when I swapped the 5 speed in, the factory sound deadening material around the 4spd auto had rotted away and fallen down. I pulled it all off. It was making the manual a pain to fit into the tunnel. So it is just straight transmission to metal tunnel.

It's full on fluid. I filled it to the top of the fill hole when I had the trans out on my bench (1.7 qts)

Car drives great, no problems at all other than the noise.

Hope this thing lasts me a while because as most all of you know... The 5 spd aluminum box is pretty rare to find

Thanks on the key chain- weird story on that.

I bought this car for $400 ~3 years ago- with the same keychain. Some time after that, I lost the keys for it completely.

After driving 4.5 hrs to the closest dealer to have a key made, I realized the ignition had been changed at some point. Drilled the ignition out and bought a new one.

My friend (who actually originally sent me the Craigslist posting for the car when it was for sale) found the same keychain on eBay for me and gave it to me as a present

So we've always joked that the "Captain's office" keychain has to stay with the car, at all times

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'84 300D Euro 5 spd
'83 240D 4spd
'83 300D/5 spd manual/Lifted+28" AT Tires
'83 300SD
'10 E63

Parting out- '79 Euro 280TE Green/Green & '89 300SEL White/Grey