:lol: That's all I can do now is laugh! He said he tore it down this morning and applied the air pressure test twice and found no fault.

I have rebuilt two of these fluid breathing monsters in my time. Got lucky on both of them the first time. I figured I wouldn't chance this one since I have a looming deadline and wanted it right. Oh well! LOL

You know, it did work like a champ for about 5-7 miles or so. I had a big fat happy smile on my face.

Trans is ready.

He couldn't find anything that made him feel like it would cause this so...

He swapped the entire case, pump...and pretty much everything else out so it would elminate many possible things.

I'll slam it in tonight. Taking Friday off work to get it wrapped up. Going to run some miles to make sure we are good - then head over to Inidana for the challenge.

well??? r we back on the road?

Yes...thanks for asking. Turned out the problem all along was a bad speedo unit. It is a autometer gauge. The gauge appeared to be working fine. However, when you watched the scanner the speed over about 40 mph was all scrambled. So, the trans didn't know how to shift and that explains why it tried to shift down for no reason at 70 or 80 and would not go to lock up.

Anyway, unplugged the speedo and all is well. I called Autometer and they said it is a known problem. The gauge more or less sucks all the signal and starves the PCM.

I'm going to ship it back to them.

In the end, I didn't need a rebuild anyway...AND the first rebuild was defective when it lost all but manual low and reverse. The shop made good on that.

thats awesome! Glad to hear it. I had a very similar issue with a 98 camaro i had, at WOT the car would not 2-3 shift. ended up being a bad VSS also