I thought I'd give an update here on the transmission. I put the Trans-X in the transmission and thought that things were marginally better. I ended up letting the car sit for 5-6 days, and the car seemed to shift much better for the first few miles, then back to what it was before.

I decided to pull the pan off and replace fluid/filter before doing anything else. The PO had told me he had kept things up to snuff, so I hadn't changed this as soon as I bought. The cold winter temps helped me to decide that, too.

Anyway, the fluid was ugly and there was a lot of dust in there. I'm not sure if it was something the Trans-X helped with or not, but it was there on the bottom of the pan. Cleaned the pan, put new fluid in and the car shifted fine. I couldn't get the torque converter done since I was by myself and got tired of trying to turn the engine over to get the bolt in place.

I'm going to do another fluid/filter change, along with the torque converter, this weekend. I hope this will keep me from putting in a rebuild. (He says, with fingers and toes crossed...)

- Ted

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1987 300SDL 265,000 mi.
1982 300SD 325,000 mi. (and holding)
1956 Packard Clipper 150,000 mi.