I removed and replaced (and did a fix, but not a rebuild) on my 80 W116 300SD without the HF tranny jack. I was not comfortable jacking the car high enough to make use of that tranny jack ( which has a very high scissor base), so I lowered it using a standard trolley jack. Worked Ok. I replaced it using 2 trolley jacks, front and rear to adjust height. I was working alone so it was a bit tough- with 2 people to keep it balanced you could do it easily enough.

An even easier way to remove it would be to find about 3 nesting cardboard boxes that fit under the tranny. Drop the tranny on those and cut them away one by one.

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