problem with transmission.

[akafrawi]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone knows where or who sell an automatic transmission for 94' mercedes C220. I have problem with mine and would like to get it rebuild or put a used one. Thanks for looking.

Cheers
Ak

[Andrew C280]

I have seen a few transmissions on ebay for decent prices, although I am always sceptical that there might be something wrong with them. Who just has a mercedes transmission laying around unless its one of the thousands that fail in there cars.

Anyone ever think about a class action suit agains merecedes and crap transmissions in c class cars.

[manny]

Originally posted by Andrew C280

Anyone ever think about a class action suit agains merecedes and crap transmissions in c class cars.

Anyone ever notice, he is talking about a 10 year old car ? :rolleyes:

[Andrew C280]

I have a 30 year old car that I pound on with 600hp and the tranny has never been replaced once and it was never built to the precision of a mercedes benz transmission i guess these things are just ment to fail huh ?
Oh yah for any smart ass coments like the tranny in that car was ment to take 600 hp well its not its a standard 350 tranny.

My dad has had over 30 cars in his life and never one transmission broke in any of them everything from novas to corvettes, jeeps everthing but he sayed away frome the european stuff, and told me to as well maybe i should have listened. yah it maybe a 10 year old car and it was babied since at the time of the transmission going it only had 80000Kwhich was 4 months ago which is less than 50000Miles.

All i am saying is i though merecedes built a better car, the stuff they claim on there website is that it should go 1000000 Miles.

other than the parts costing so much and the constant maintance its a awesome car and was well cared for

the other thing is 90% of my mercedes bashing is due to poor customer care my dealership is owned by lets say not the helpfullest people.

[manny]

Take a deep breath.
My buddy has been operating an automatic transmission repair facility for about 25 years & I've never met anyone better than him at his job.
According to him, average life expectancy of a trannie is @ 150 - 200 k miles.
Some may go longer, some less, depending on the care/service, use/abuse they get.
Other than the infamous Chrysler Minivan transmission disaster, he says they're all about the same. ;)
As far as your 600 hp engine goes, please post a Dyno sheet. ;)

[manny]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by manny
[B]Take a deep breath.

[Andrew C280]

I will have to see if i have a dyno sheet,

1969 455 big block oldsmobile came in hurst olds and very high proformance olds
i think its a 7.4 L
high flow heads, header exhaust intake, awesome carb its a 4 barrel the first two barrels are quite small but the rear two are massive over 2.5 inches when you drop the hammer it goes down the road side ways at almost any speed, my dad is thinking about fuel injection on it for some more power

I will see if i can get a dyno sheet, or i will have to go to the shop and dyno run it
467cid Oldsmobile Engine / Drag Race


EngSpd STPTrq STPPwr BSFC FulA+B Air1+2 A/F AirTmp WtrOut
RPM Clb-ft CHp lb/hph lb/hr scfm Ratio degF degF

4600 600.0 525.5 0.490 236.4 585.4 11.34 72 173
4700 608.0 544.1 0.469 234.4 604.5 11.81 72 173
4800 613.9 561.1 0.466 239.8 623.2 11.90 72 173
4900 613.5 572.4 0.452 237.5 639.5 12.33 72 173
5000 615.8 586.3 0.454 244.5 656.6 12.29 72 173
5100 618.1 600.2 0.464 255.7 670.6 12.01 72 173
5200 612.6 606.6 0.459 255.3 687.1 12.32 72 173
5300 610.2 615.7 0.457 257.9 704.7 12.51 72 172
5400 610.4 627.6 0.487 280.1 721.2 11.79 72 172
5500 605.4 633.9 0.501 291.0 737.6 11.60 72 172
5600 605.6 645.7 0.487 288.1 752.9 11.96 72 172
5700 601.6 653.0 0.447 266.9 763.3 13.09 72 172
5800 601.9 664.7 0.461 280.3 778.5 12.71 72 172
5900 602.2 676.5 0.436 269.6 792.4 13.46 72 172
6000 593.1 677.5 0.450 278.2 805.6 13.26 72 172
6100 590.8 686.2 0.464 290.7 817.6 12.88 72 172
6200 584.7 690.3 0.458 288.3 827.8 13.14 72 172
6300 576.1 691.1 0.462 291.2 832.5 13.09 72 172
6400 568.6 692.9 0.474 298.9 843.9 12.93 72 172
6500 561.1 694.4 0.484 305.5 854.1 12.80 72 172
6600 549.8 690.9 0.493 309.5 858.9 12.70 72 172
6700 534.4 681.8 0.499 308.9 866.2 12.84 72 172
** 6800 534.2 691.7 0.484 303.8 872.0 13.14 72 172

** Range: 4800 RPM - 6800 RPM

AVG: 5800 590.7 649.5 0.469 278.2 767.0 12.61 72 172
MIN: 4800 534.2 561.1 0.436 237.5 623.2 11.60 72 172
MAX: 6800 618.1 694.4 0.501 309.5 872.0 13.46 72 173



Best E.T. 10.11, best MPH 133.

[manny]

Impressive number. I used to run a dyno so, recognize sweet stuff when I see it. ;)
Surely, if your dad is running a turbo-hydramatic 350, it must have had some major work done to it.
I just don't see it taking That juice on a consistent basis for very long.

[Andrew C280]

nope bone stock its had a 350 and a 403 bolted to it in the past, we where going to get a turbo 400 but we figured lets use this one that I have laying around the garage I have 3 engines in my garage right now so we just took a tranny and bolted it in its not rebuilt and its probally got about 160 000 Miles on

god for bid my engine goes I am going to bolt in a Chevy V8 in my W202 for some real power, a nice littel 405 hp unit plus i could buy it bran new for $4000 that pretty cheap compared to turbos or supercharges for the car.

[fastmayte]

i've seen some on

www.car-part.com

for around 5-600.

check your area for one.

the thing i don't like about buying from a junkyard is that you donno if it's working, and once installed and shows that it deosn't work, gotta take it out again and wasting time and labour costs. so thats just one thing to consider.

[Andrew C280]

after reading my march edition of road and track i noticed in the back its got a mercedes parts catlog listing mercedes transmissions at thats for a factory rebuilt 1195.00 seams like a good price.

here is a website http://www.adsitco.com/

[watsone91]

Your car c220 has a jap gearbox its made by isuzu and almost all jap autos use it does this give you a clue where to look eds.....