Pulled the 5hp24 transmission to do a tear down and rebuild. Ordered the kit and it shipped U.S. snail mail...who in turn sent it to the wrong city!

Busted my knuckle open to the bone breaking the bolts loose on the bell-housing and ended up getting sealed up with superglue in the ER (bell-housing edge is sharp as a knife!!!).

What led me to this? Burnt fluid, hard/delayed shift into 1st, hard 2-1 downshift, and a transmission fail-safe mode after it slipped coming off the freeway. Apparently pretty common?