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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrankenStang" data-source="post: 1144587" data-attributes="member: 17169">so I traded for a trans last night and it was from an 89 gt with 88,000 miles and I saw the car and eng and all...I had help from my brother getting in last night and went out to the garage to a floor FULL OF TRANS FLUID !? #1 I FOUND a plastic plug with a little rubber oring thingy on it in the new trans oilpan,what is that? also it had a piston looking thing in the ver lower keft of the trans and the one from my cougar didn't...whats up with that? ille get pics tomorrow.. so  go and start looking at the trans because I thought it was the rite trans but closer inspect it WASNT..The gear selecter was up side down and it had no TV bar for the Tv linkage and the fluid in and out line are slip fits not slidebolts, FUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK! and there is a big mess on my floor.sooooo I smoke one and I smoke a cig and get a thinking, hmmmm I remember reading and that the inner gear selector can be swapped out( this is not gonna be fun since I read it involves removing the valve body)So I crack open both pan and get comparing...I start to take apart the old trans and find that there is one nut that can be lossened on the inside of the shift linkage exposed not under the valve body, so I loosen it thinking that's how I start taking the linkage out and I find that the linkage can now be pulled out 1/4 an inch and I can then rotate it and reattach it to the shaft as it has a slotted insert...HHHMMMSo then I look at the new trans and do the same thing, I had to bend the shift lever so it could rotate 180 degrees to match my cougars and then install the TV cable bar which now also was in the correct spot..i then tightened it all up and and made shur it sleected all the egars fine and the TV post correctly pussued in tha actuator majiggy inside the valve body..this is going just wayyy to easy for me, I always have bad luck...I will have to save up and get a new tail shaft seal, oilpan seal and the best fluid and ille ask you guys about that when the time comes..and once its in I WILL take it to a trans shop and have them properly adjust my TV cable and check its pressure..</blockquote>