Well I think the OP is on the wrong tract. He is short of funds and he needs transportation. If he can get this one on the road with external low cost fixes, great. If he really doesn't know if he is capable of even pulling the transmission, how in the world is he going to overhaul it. It ain't going to get done. STRECH is a very special individual. He has a life time hobby of taking things apart and putting them together correctly. He has developed skills. Few people other then highly trained technicians can do those overhauls. Look here on the forum and try to buy a known functioning used one. If none is available get one from the junkyard. Try to find one on a wrecked car - your chances of having a working transmission is better if the car was wrecked in the not to distant past. Don't worry to much about an exact match. If you can find one that looks good on an 84, good, go for it. But if it is another model year, it might be a little different, but it will work. For an untrained person to jump into overhauling an automatic transmission is just plain nuts. Don't do it. After you install a used one and have your car back on the road, well then it might be the time to look into that transmission just for the fun of it. But for most folks that would not even be fun!

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