couple questions..
As far as the tranny. You cant really drain it.
I just use a tranny jack from harbor freight. Whan I take the driveshaft and crossbrace off I lower the tranny slower and have a bucket ready it will leak out of the tail shaft.
Screw local tranny shops Just get a PERFROMABUILT LV2 and be done with it man. 5 years ago I had the same problem you did used a local tranny shop and they screwed me over 3 TIMES. I got fed up called Frank on here and he set me up with there lv2 tranny and never had a problem.


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