Some of the fellas I've known who overhauled manual trannies have told me
that jigs are necessary. The jigs they used, they made from scavenged parts
from other trannies. Haven't done this myself, just read about it, but
supposedly with reasonable mechanical skills and a good set of tools you
can do an auto tranny in your home garage.

John
On Apr 1, 2016 12:41, "Neil N" <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, this Neil lives way far away from (New Hampshire?), knows
> nothing of shops nearby and little to nothing of automatic
> transmissions except if I was every going to *attempt* a transmission
> overhaul, it would be on an automatic.
>
> Neil.
>
> On 4/1/16, Michael <mikewelldon@icloud.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Anyway, Neil are you following this at all? Know anyone in NH area that
> > could do a rebuild?
>
>
>
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> Neil n
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