My experience has been that the coolant in the transmission swells the clutch plates and destroys them very quickly. If after flushing the transmission, by draining the transmission and the torque converter several times, the transmission shifts hard or slips, it will be time to rebuild. Hope you get a better answer from the MB guys, but that's my experience with a ruptured AT cooler inside a radiator on a Suburban.

Gary

Gary is right. Don't drive any more than absolutely necessary and try multiple complete drains and refills.

Regarding the hoses and the T-stat, I would at least do the T-stat and the radiator (which caused the problem in the first place).

Haasman

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'95 E320 Wagon-Went to Ex
'93 190E 2.6-Wrecked
'91 300E-Went to Ex
'65 911 Coupe (#302580)

Thanks for the replies guys, I figured the transmission would need to be cleaned out well after this incident... if only I had replaced the radiator back when I did the water pump

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Speaking of radiators, and not to change the subject, there was a segment this week on the Science Channel show 'How It's Made' about the radiator manufacturning process. It showed how copper and brass radiators were made, not the current aluminum and plastic ones.

Back on the main topic, plastic and aluminum radiators might really be a disposable item at 100K miles.

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Warren

Currently 1965 220Sb, 2002 FORD Crown Vic Police Interceptor

Had 1965 220SEb, 1967 230S, 280SE 4.5, 300SE (W126), 420SEL

ENTER > = (HP RPN)

Not part of the in-crowd since 1952.

The dealers have a glycol test kit for contaminated trans fluid. I saw such a disaster in progress a few weeks ago at my dealer. The culprit was the Valeo-made (Italian) radiator in a C32. The trans cooler and radiator were cross-pollinating and the ATF contamination was beyond the allowable limit. Luckily for the car owner the warranty was picking up the radiator and transmission replacements. The tech said this failure was being seen more often.

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