Feel your pain, bought mine with bad front pump and got quoted some
insane prices. Went online to www.car-parts.com and found a rolled over
01 in a yard in Utah with only 4200 miles on it. Spent $950 and got what I needed to roll once again. I needed a flexplate also, it was bent and the vibration is what took out the front pump bushing. That upped the project another $215 plus $60 for all new bolts flown in to keep this job moving along. Do you sometimes get the idea that repair shops are out to get us?

When using Car-Parts.com, go through all the pages of the listings. It sorted the 01 Vehicross trans listing to the last of 12 pages and I would have missed this whole deal entirely if I would have settled for one of the low mile Trooper transmissions listed in the previous pages, for more money I might add. That website was a life saver for me. Hope it can be for all my fellow vx owners!