Thank you all for your suggestions and encouragement, and sorry for not responding sooner as I've been away (moving to new location)

I'll do what many of you suggested and re-build the trany myself (just turned 21 so I think I'll forget the six pack grin I've torn the engine almost to pieces to re-build it and haven't found anything scarry in it (yet) so how much worse could a trany be?.

Again many thanks, you all are a great bunch!

Jacob