New Trans, lost reverse...

I completely agree PoisonDart. I've built many cars from the ground up too, minus the paint jobs/upholstery that I don't care to learn how to paint/upholster, and instead take it to a painter/upholsterer :cheese:, So if I wanted to, sure I could get into it and learn, and I appreciate the GREAT tips I got on here and I would definitely do it myself if I had to, but my want has changed. I'm not so much telling myself I can't, it's more that I don't want to. If a guy wanted to, awesome, more power to him. I already called Huges and they said rather than buying a new one, they'd go through the one I have, for what they said would a lot cheaper than a new tranny. OK cool, works for me, in this particular situation. Nothing wrong if a guy wants to send his grille out to be restored vs doing it himself, having a cage installed rather than doing it himself, taking his seats to an upholstery shop vs making his own seat covers, or installing repop covers, sending a car to a body shop vs learning to paint it yourself and so on. Hell, I didn't know anything about mini-tubbing my chevy before I did it, but I did it anyway. Did every guy in the TCI trans thread fix theirs themselves? I just didn't get the knock earlier for not doing it myself. Might not be ideal for everyone, but I can't imagine some of the responses someone would get if they didn't have the means or knowhow to do their own work. Just took me by surprise, since this is the first time I've seen that type of reaction to someone on a domestic car forum. I have to talk to a lot of transmission guys too, and my Lord just because they work on transmissions that most certainly doesn't give them the ability to knock anyone else for this or that. I'll zip my keyboard for now/end meltdown, and hopefully won't have to come crawling back to this thread about the same problem so y'all can say you told me so. :axe: :D