I made a new word, like it? Anyway...

My transmission problems may finally be over. I've been having issues with it since day one but flushing helped usually until last week when I humorously found myself rolling backwards down a hill with the tranny in drive and the engine spinning.

A Turbobricks member very generously offered me a free aw71 from a '90 turbo 740 (I think), so I picked it up and had it installed. Car drives great now.

But the odd part is that it was a direct swap. Many people said it might not be that easy, that the tailshaft may have been different, among other things - the transmissions were identical.

Then, when the guy put my old transmission in the back of the wagon for me to take home, I noticed something - the ID tag on the tranny looks as it should:


03-70 - that means it's an aw70, right? But with the tranny out and fully visible, for the first time I noticed this:


Stamped right on the case is a great big 03-71. Um. Does that mean it already had an aw71 from the start but it was tagged as a 70? Anybody else with a '93 240 seen the same?

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'93 244: 'A' cam 4 deg. advanced, 25/22 sways, custom heim endlinks, poly bushings, and a lot more styling customization than I care to recount.