So far, Thing One's put about 75-100 miles on the suspect transmission and reports some intermittent slipping at start-up.

He's not familiar with Benz tranny's and I've only ridden in the car about 20 of those miles so he might actually be experiencing a 1-2 flared shift. I'll have another chance to drive/ride tonight and will see what happens.

Unfortunately, we can't dog this car until those trailing arm bushings are in....waaaaaay too scary to drive it very fast/hard.

Meanwhile, we've scored another 722.xxx automatic. The boneyard is holding it on the off chance we need it.

I'm not taking any chances. This car has to make it from Texas to New York (and be reliable when it gets there too). $400 for a working tranny is cheap insurance...and they're no big deal to swap out.

To be continued...

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