904 Transmission Stopped Going Into Gear

Duster Captain said

I hear you. No way of knowing what happened before you.

I would guess someone used the wrong thrust washers, did not have enough endplay, and then they tried over tightening the front band when the trans started to act up. But that's all just a guess.

I've already got the valve body back together and everything on it matched up to the pictures in the rebuild manual so I'm not worried about it at this point.

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Those guesses would not be mine. Like I said before; those thrust washers could not have survived with being smashed together like that. No way. #2: That band is unusually fried. That wasn't caused by the end play problem. I'm answering your questions to help you plus anybody else who may be encountering the same thing. But like I said in the beginning; I would have found a different transmission to start with. I think your transmission will probably work; but not as well as you'd like and definitely not for as long as you'd like.