[MBZ] it started out as a routine servicing on my SDL

[Kaleb C. Striplin]

But it sure didnt end that way.  Did the oil change yesterday, put in 
delvac 1300(yea yea, not mobile one so my lifters will probably start 
tapping again).  Today was the tranny filter change.  I have been having 
a pretty decent leak from the b2 piston cover for a while so after I 
changed the fluid and put the pan back on, I pushed in the cover and 
reseated it thinking maybe that would seal it back up.   Didnt have 
another o-ring so just wanted to do that real quick and see.  Boy did 
that turn out to be a disaster.  Filled tranny back up, went for a test 
drive.  It was on the way back as i was pulling into the driveway I 
noticed a stream of something that have followed me out of the drive. 
Fluid was just blowing right out of the thing now.  Crap.  Ok, so I 
popped the clip off the b2 piston, popped the cover off, pulled the 
piston out, then pulled out the o-ring, it was split in half.  Crap, 
dont have another one.  Well I just pulled the b2 piston ect out of 
another tranny I had in the garage and used its seal on the SDL.  That 
sucker is a bitch to get back in the little groove it fits in.  Got it 
all put back together, fulled tranny back up, no more leaks.  Shifts 
great now too.  In the mean time, I must have had my head off the end of 
the creaper under the car laying in a big pool of tranny fluid.  By the 
time I got done it looked like I had taken a bath in tranny fluid. I 
didnt think I was ever going to get that crap out of my hair.  I tried 
hand cleaner, then dish soap, followed by shampoo.  I think its all out 
now.  What a day.
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Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK
 89 560SEL, 87 300SDL, 87 300SDL, 85 380SE,
 85 300D,  83 300TD, 81 300TD, 81 240D, 81 240D,
 76 450SEL, 76 240D, 76 300D, 74 240D, 69 250
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