Discovered that the $600E320 does indeed have a drain plug in the torque
converter which made it easy to drain out the old nasty fluid. The
fluid is black and nasty and smells bad, probably never been changed.
Of course in finding it if I had turned it one way the plug would have
been about an inch away, as it was I rotated it almost 360deg, of
course... I read where they had the drain up until a certain build, this
car was built mid 98 I guess (sold almost exactly 21 yr ago right now
according to docs in the manual case).
Dropped the valve body and pulled the solenoids and conductor plate,
cleaned everything very well with break kleener, there was still fluid
draining out of the valve body, I think most of it came out. I'll try
to get it back together tomorrow if I have time. There a 10 or so
screws holding it in, not a big deal. There is some plastic slider
piston kind of thing in the valve body, I'll have to pay attention to
what that grabs. I'm wondering if that is supposed to have a spring on
it? There isn't one. I'll have to check on that. Looks like not, it
hooks to something.
I'm hoping that a new dose of fluid and the conductor plate and
connector cures the issue. And getting the fancy computer to talk to
the tranny nanny. Will know soon.
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--FT
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