Attaboy Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 8:32 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
