In a bit of a spot here. Mistakenly removed lower valve body "large dog leg cover" and later discovered three 5.5mm plastic balls & one 0.245 inch plastic ball in my catch basin along w/ a 0.078" x 0.218" long pin. I believe the later may be trash from some past activity - please advise. The BIG problem is where do they go & are there only four in the lower valve body? I see what appears to be several chamfered holes but don't really want to guess at their location - CAN ANYONE HELP? This is all happening under the car, 1988 740 GLE, nonturbo, 8-valve w/ new headgasket. The reason I'm in here is that I found water (milky fluid in trany)w/ kickdown cable binding. Found a great write-up but unfortunately did not define location for these LOWER VALVE BODY balls.

Toni: do you still have that piece of paper indicating where the balls go? As you say TP 31642/1 service manual oddly enough does talk about these balls.

THANKS for any help you can provide - even correct count of balls for the lower valve body would help. I see there are four balls in the upper valve body - don't have this apart yet & w/o gaskets probably won't go there even though I'd like to check that 1st to 2nd shift ball diameter.