So...........here it goes.............on the way home from work Friday, about 2-3 mins from my house, My transmission fudged up. I went over a train track while shifting into 3rd and then it wouldn't come out of gear. I 3rd gear'd myself to my neighbor's house who is a mechanic/airplane fabricator with every worldly part in his garage. We dropped the transmission last night before it got too dark and too cold. He tore it apart this morning to tell me the 1st/3rd shift fork is broken. I guess i'll upload photos tomorrow.
Scratch'n'sniff has a transmission at his house for parts and is currently pulling the part I need now for an awesome $50. SCMP3 is picking it up from him in 3-4 hours as well as a bumper. I'm meeting SCMP3 at a car meet in Charlotte tomorrow afternoon to grab the part. My neighbor is charging me $300 for everything. $350 is waaaayyyy better that the $1,025 I spent with my last transmission swap