It is out the door with no spring/no rod. The customer purchased this built up 727 & a seperate shift kitted VB & I am being paid to install the VB/filter/pan gasket/pan however when I took the pan off to do this 15 minute job I noticed there was no spring in the accumulator so I figured I'd better check in with the pros before I made another move. Thank you all for the interest/info/discussion. Later on I will be doing the 440/727 install for him so if he has a problem with the trans' manners I will deal with it at that point in time.