I've read somewhere that MB transmissions are designed/tuned to expect "normal" power and torque from the engine they are bolted to. An engine which is not providing full power is easily mis-diagnosed as a transmission problem, because the shifting is wrong. That may be what happened to you.
Do you know of any other car with a gasser transmission behind a diesel engine? -- Max, Charleston SC "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: >Ok, so took about 4 hours to completely swap the tranny on the 190D, it > >does have the flaring 2-3 shift so I need to do the spring upgrade. >Had >to adjust the tranny to the hard shifting side to get the flare to a >minimum. Once I get the spring upgrade done it should shift very well. > >As a side note, both the previous transmission installs were .409 boxes > >out of like a 2.3 or 2.6 gas car. This one is the .403. the diesel >uses a different converter also, so I had the diesel converter and the >gas tranny with the diesel version modulator valve. Could it be >something in the gearing, or something I am not thinking about that >would cause these to not upshift, or rather, sometimes upshift >sometimes >not? I would not think so but maybe I am missing something. > >_______________________________________ >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 _______________________________________ 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
