"All wish to possess knowledge, but few are willing to pay the price." --Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

I'm extremely happy with the outcome of this job. Only because the results are SO GOOD it makes the hardships I had to go through seem irrelevant now. Those hardships were ALL because of the quality of the replacement parts I purchased. In the ~40 years that I've been doing my own maintenance I've never purchased such a COMPLETE LOT of shoddy parts. I don't say that lightly, as it almost never occurs. But as the saying goes, "Over a long enough period of time even extremely unlikely events will likely happen." You already know about the AT pan gasket. I'll explain in my following posts (as I have the time to write them) the problems I had with the transmission filter and the pilot bushing. When I'm finished I'll write 'END OF REPORT' or something, to let you know I'm done.