I made a mistake by going over to the planet, and found a PDF file on rebuilding the transmission. spent last night going thru the file, looking at the pictures, and my vx service manual...Yup, Looks pretty straight forward....Rebuild kits are not too crazy expensive....I could probably find the time.....the guy who wrote it considered himself a shade tree mechanic from Switzerland and he was successful......

Please someone, talk me out of this.....ha!