Wild Bill, The valve body is the stock unit. I'm installing a TransGo Shift kit. What is an LBA? I don't have a lip seal tool. I'll definitely consider it.

Leigh, do you have photos? I have no idea what you are suggesting.

I'll get back to all the lip seal comments when I get to that point of the rebuild. Right now I don't even know what the lip seal looks like. Thank you all for the information so far.

Here's a new development. Inspecting the housing I found this.


This is a pump bolt hole is at the 9 o'clock position. The bolt was threaded in tight and it looks like it's got a helicoil in it??? I've lost a quarter inch of thread. So obviously somebody else has been under lucy's skirt...

Like I said, there are enough threads for the bolt to get a good grip. Is the case still okay? I don't see any fractures beyond this little break.