Hi, having read your postI decided to have ago at my L322 transmission fault. The fault is that when you select Drive you have to wait a couple of seconds before you apply any power otherwise the engine revs and the transmission engages with a hard thump, this also happens in reverse. Once I have given it the couple of seconds needed to engage the drive there doesn't appear to be any other problems except when you're stopped with the brake on but still in drive for a few seconds you again have to wait before applying power. There doesn't seem to be any slipping under normal driving.
So, I have removed and stripped the transmission hoping to find this O-ring broken, but it all appears to be fine and I haven't noticed any other signs of wear.
Any clues would be appreciated.
81mm is fine for the flow control valve spring.
So the only time you have a problem is when the engine speed is (say) below 1000rpm and the rest of the time the transmission behaves perfectly?
Is the delay any different between hot & cold?
It's usually straight–forward to pin faults like this down to a particular clutch but, because your problem occurs in both forwards and reverse which use completely different clutches, it doesn't sound like a clutch problem to me. There's clearly a lack of flow at idle which means either there's a problem with the pump or that you have a leak in the hydraulics somewhere because the pump flow at idle isn't sufficient to maintain pressure. Increasing fluid temperature reduces the fluid viscosity causing more fluid to leak and the problem to get worse. In either case, in my view, your transmission will have to come out for repair.
Wow...... Fortunately they fixed that issue by the time the L322 was launched. You can see two indentations in each block where they test its strength/hardness at exactly that position before passing it off.
If you're stuck I have some spare upper valve blocks knocking about (without cracks in!)