Everything is still as described before. Some more things: When in 4th and at non-hwy speeds, depressing the gas to speed up, it should just shift down to 3rd so you can gradually speed up, only downshifting to 2nd if you hit the kickdown switch. Now, if you depress it w/o hitting the kickdown, it abruptly downshifts to 2nd. It only downshifts to 3rd if you barely press on it or at hwy speeds, but then hitting the kickdown switch does nothing. So driving is a bit erratic in the city and passing power is gone on the hwy.

Took it into an indy (who by the way put green coolant in with my MB coolant, so needless to say I won't be going back there)....well he "wasn't sure" what was wrong with the tranny. He suggested "trying" a tranny service, but at his $130 asking price and not knowing if it was actually going to to anything, I passed. So I just did it today myself. Start with the cheapest thing. New MB filter, new fluid. Drove it.....no change. None. I am thinking about using Auto-Rx, but with the chances of it doing anything being very uncertain, the $25 bottle sounds mighty expensive. The indy suggested sending off the valve body and having it rebuilt at a tune of $600. Not knowing that that is actually it, kind of a lot of money to swallow.

The actual shifts seem fine, no slipping. The first shift may be a bit slow, but again no slipping. The pan had just traces of fine metal shavings in it, barely noticible. No chunks or piles of anything. Also, the bowden cable has slack in it, so if anything that should cause it to shift early, not later.

Needless to say I am getting very aggravated. What was once a car that was a dream to drive is now the opposite. The engine runs like a gem, a tranny that runs the same would be nice.

Anyone?

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Dad bought it new, now I own it.

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