Transmission went out:( Replace or Rebuild??

Transmission just went out and I'm not sure which is the better route to take. Specifically what its doing is this, reverse and low work fine. Drive, third & second slip practically like its in neutral.

This happened suddenly overnight, woke up the following morning and surprise. I always thought transmissions go out slowly, guess not.

A local shop quoted $1900 to rebuild the tranny. I can get one from a trooper shipped to a local salvage yard for $800 but then would still need to do the swap. Plus I remember someone on here mentioning rough gear changes after doing a trooper tranny swap? Anyone else have experience with that?

Third possible option is a replacement with a different tranny, is that even possible? I know a standard rather than auto has been done but any other automatic solutions?

Thanks

Keith

With a used tranny you may get lucky and ot works fine and lasts a long time or you may get 200 miles out of it and your stuck with $800 yard ornament.
If you rebuild using a quality shop that uses quality parts (there are aftermarket sources for heavy duty clutches/bands) you know what you're getting plus a good shop will iaually garantee their work.
Ultimately it's your money and decision.
The only option for a different auto tranny would involve big $$$. A cuatim adapter would need to be fabbed, etc...

Thanks. The shop did have a 12 month 12k miles warranty.

ran into the same problem with my transfer case - a new one from isuzu is like $275,486.47 and all of the used ones i came across were either out of a trooper or had about the same amount of miles mine did on it before it went bad - i chose to rebuild because i felt confident that the shop and guys working there knew what they were doing - if my trans went out i would probably rebuild as well