Up thru 99 they had a drain plug. After that they did not. Sent from my iPhone
> On Sep 25, 2019, at 6:32 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > --FT > > > _______________________________________ > http://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 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
