Originally Posted by Robin-H

Haha, too late to say now

Anyway, here are some extra pictures:



The black plastic part on the lower right corner goes on top of the valve body. If you look at the second picture, you can see that the top of my valve body is pretty much flat. Yours has the plastic part sort of implemented in the metal of the valve body itself.

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Originally Posted by Robin-H

Ok, got the chance to pull the valve body out of my car this weekend. Apart from the "transmission-fluid-everywhere-issue", it was a pretty straight forward job. Especially if you follow the FSM and use the 'special' pin that holds the control pressure valve back when re-installing.

Unfortunately, the valve body provided by Stretch had some differences to the point that I wouldn't be able to install it in my transmission. His is an early 722.112 valve body, mine a later one with the plastic holder for the brake bands.

So... no guts no glory. I took my valve body to bits to see its condition, only to realize it to be petty damn good. Everything was spotless clean, no black stuff anywhere. Which of course is a good thing, but doesn't explain the rough shifting. That was untill we got to the mother of all valves. The big one at the upper valve body (with the three screws and three springs).

The short spring was broken in three pieces and therefor of course not giving any resistance to the hydraulic pressure. Everytime this thing shifted, it applied the full 6 bars of oil pressure in a heartbeat. Not good.



So... (sorry Stretch) I went ahead and unscrewed the plate on the 'spare' valve body to find a spring that was intact. Swapped them over. Closed everthing up with new gaskets and bolted it back in the transmission, new filter and fluid, started the car and went for a testrun.

Gear shifts are a bit later now (despite the linkage being correct) (37 / 67 kph), but are much, much smoother. A little bit of fiddling with the modulator should fix that and all should be good.

Went to the dealer to order a new spring and gasket... guess what? €2,17! Compare the cost of that to the €2000,- quote I got from a transmission-builder.