Wow! Wouldn't that suck if the problem was just the wrong cable/tranny? Many of us have been in that place at one time or another.....
Dan ________________________________ From: Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 7:53 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Latest 190D tranny update I wonder. The shift control cable on the diesel works "backwards" on the 603 -- fully extended at idle and retracts into the housing with opening pedal, not the other way 'round which is the usual. Might think it's at full throttle all the time.... Peter On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: > Ok, so took about 4 hours to completely swap the tranny on the 190D, it does > have the flaring 2-3 shift so I need to do the spring upgrade. Had to adjust > the tranny to the hard shifting side to get the flare to a minimum. Once I > get the spring upgrade done it should shift very well. > > As a side note, both the previous transmission installs were .409 boxes out > of like a 2.3 or 2.6 gas car. This one is the .403. the diesel uses a > different converter also, so I had the diesel converter and the gas tranny > with the diesel version modulator valve. Could it be something in the > gearing, or something I am not thinking about that would cause these to not > upshift, or rather, sometimes upshift sometimes not? I would not think so > but maybe I am missing something. > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
