Good Day All!

My wagon has been shifting "funky" for a week or 2. The funky shifting could be described as such:
* poor performance off the line with white'ish smoke
* not shifting between gears until ~4000 RPMs
* slipping out of 3rd gear if my foot was removed from the accelerator

I finally buried my head under the hood this past weekend. After all the research I had done, I believed I was troubleshooting a vacuum problem. After replacing several of the black connector hoses around the blue saucer, I thought I had the problem licked!

Alas,several of the symptoms were fixed but not all.

* She is now much quicker off the line and the smoke is gone except if I go hard on the accelerator.
* She shifts more smoothly between gears and does not need to hit ~4000 RPMs. 2nd to 3rd is the exception. She still seems to want to hit ~4K before shifting but the shift is smooth.
* I thought she was staying in 3rd gear but sporadically, if I take my foot off the accelerator, she will slip out of gear. If I move the gear shifter to 2 and give a little fuel, she goes back into gear and I can shift back to D.

I did not check my Trans Fluid level this past week but it was good approximately 2 months ago (I have not had any trans fluid puddles in that time.)

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!!

Thank You!

glenn

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1988 300 TE - Schnitzel (Daily Driver)
1995 E300 - Betty (Son's Daily Driver)

1987 300 TD - Kraut (Dropped a valve)

1987 300 D - Hans (Need to rebuild engine)