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Old 07-01-2010, 10:19 AM
skinnison skinnison is offline
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Originally Posted by deanyel View Post
Did you do the car-part.com search? Even the $1000 is on the high side.
Didn't do car-part.com. Tried but they wanted to get back to me via email. I made 10 inquiries yesterday. Here's the thing.. I have two quotes for labor to drop the trany, one is $1000 and the other is $850. This is to pull it out and put it back in. The reverse parts are something like $250. Now add time for rebuild and you are up there, maybe $1500 or more, (just to rebuild your reverse). Then, from what some experienced forum members have said, along with my mechanic, you are running a risk of debres getting through the screen and into the rest of the trany which will kill it.

I think it is a safer bet to put a low mileage used in it. However, I may do a rebuild. I'm torn. Just dropped $2500 into the car in March for headgasket and a bunch of other items (including a trny service). Did it because the car seemed solid and I had no issues with the trany. 4 weeks later I start to loose reverse. I swear I am cursed.
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