Stop in for a cup of coffee

dukeboy_318 said
Like I said before, very rarely has anyone successfully done it for long

Had a lengthy discussion with Rick Allison at A and A he explained the complexity and low return on accomplishing an early 904 rear pump bypass (which is essentially what it is... not a "removal" as demonstrated in the photo I posted.

dukeboy_318 said
considering the amount of problems he had with that one, I wouldn’t even think about taking any of those parts and putting in a different trans.

From conversations and analysis the attempt was a hardware swap of the valve body only. Fail

I do agree that I'm going to start fresh just from a superstion perspective.