Perhaps you need to change the diff gears --- On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Jim Cathey <j...@windwireless.net> wrote:
> market for overdrive manual trans conversions for MBs, >> > > With our 190D 2.5 manual conversion we have effectively an > overdrive situation, and it's useless. No point, really, > to fifth gear. Stay in four, why not? The diff gearing is > too tall. The whole car drives 'wrong', and now that we've > got a few miles on it (and now that the suspension is sufficiently > rebuilt) I can blame most of it on the gearing. The old 200D > is _so_ nice to drive around, whereas this is so.... not. > MB's really quite good at engineering cars, seems to me. > The rest of the 190D experience would be just peachy, were > the torque characteristics even half so good as the 200D's. > (OK, it's a bit small inside.) > > -- Jim > > -- OK Don 2001 ML320 1992 300D 2.5T 1990 300D 2.5T 1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager _______________________________________ 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
