Sorry for the late response...I barely got home and was out in the rain trying to get a good look at that darn pushrod.

Bad news...the pushrod I have is white...I was hoping it's black which would make sense, but no, its white.

Of course, these type of things only happen to me, so I'm not really surprised. I'm not really sure what to do at this point...I don't want to start throwing parts at it, but it looks like I may be forced to do that in lieu of dropping the trans.

And as rs899 said earlier, I might not get much from opening the trans up either. I'm stumped...