Project- Bills Buggy

So... The valve body went off to my one buddy's shop to be torn apart and cleaned.. Make sure all debris and metal shavings are out of it before I put it in the other tranny.. He also rebuilds trannys, and recongnized the pieces laying in the pan.. It wasnt sprag like we were originally thinking. He said the pieces came from the bearing in the tail shaft. That bearing prevents the output shaft from moving in and out. Which was what was happening... the shaft would move, causing me to lose pressure, which is why I would have reverse sometimes, but not others, and why it kept kicking itself out of high gear and back to 2nd (unless Id put my foot back on the gas, and then sometimes I would get high gear back.... same thing with reverse sometimes when I didnt have it, if I revved the engine good, it would out of nowhere bang into reverse.) ... So... at least the mystery of what went wrong with my tranny is solved... now I have to get the new one ready to go in... Hopefully that will be next week..