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Originally Posted by cth350
Quality control from some suppliers is basically doo-doo.
You can definitely get OEM from the Mercedes Classic Center.
But also, you can trust a large supply house that has been in business a while.
That depends on where you live and who you can call.
Once you have the parts in hand, you're going to want to visually inspect them and you're going to want to measure thickness of the various plates. Pay careful attention to instructions about how thick the clutch packs should be. Also, pay attention to what constitutes wear and damage to the specific hard parts you are going to be reusing.
As somebody else said, pay careful attention to where things where and have notes about where to put things back, as your own notes will be the only reliable source of information about what you are doing.
Worse case, you'll be doing it all over again with a fresh set of seals. But I doubt you'll to do it more than twice unless you are exceedingly unlucky.
Please share progress with us and when you run into a speed bump, somebody who's been following along may well be able to lend you a hand.
Good luck and remember, the worse that can happen is that it goes wrong. So don't let that stop you from proceeding.
-CTH
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I was actually able to finally put it back together with the help of a friend and the manuals. It works great and shifts into gears smoothly. It was slipping before and had issues due to worn inner discs, outer, brake bands, and seals.
Still, however, 5th is nowhere to be found. I built a code reader using information from a member post and got code for :
- Left rear axle vehicle speed sensor or Hall-effect speed sensor
Before rebuilding I had no 5th gear and the cruise control would drop until it eventually stopped working as well as having an ABS light and the car would stall when at stop or under load at low speed. Y3/1y2 valve tested OK. I will diagnose the speed sensors and throttle body and 4<>5 switch in hopes to find a solution in this maze step by step
I couldn't find the exact valve body match for E280's 722.504 which is 124 270 64 15 / 124 270 79 15, and found one for E320 722.509 which is 124 270 80 15. Although they had the exact part numbers for the internal parts , the valve body assembly number is different. Can you help me understand the difference? And if it would do any harm to use it till I can source the correct one