727 issue

Now that you mentioned it, I believe you. Like I said, it's been a long time since I did anything with them. I do know the way things are going with all the older parts and stuff is they are being scrapped out as fast as the salvagers can, anything over 10 years old goes to a crusher and aluminum and all the other stuff is being recycled for new stuff and with China gearing for war and shutting down alloy exports it's going to pick up rapidly. Which brings me to what I just read about a climate issue globally. Electric cars are what we are all going to be forced into sooner than many of us wish. I Japan, if a car has over 30k on it and it is involved in an accident, there's only one option. Junk it now matter how little the damage is and anything not damaged is exported which causes issues for the destination of the salvaged part as many of those parts are different enough so as to not be able to be used for replacements for worn out or broken parts. I mentioned I had lost or left behind ALL of my good MOPAR stuff and years later started collecting GM stuff which includes a 4l80E and it turns out this model is one of the most expensive transmissions to work with in the U.S. market. Go figure, a modified TH400 being so expensive people choose to replace an entire vehicle instead of fixing it. The newer vehicle is actually and usually a bigger POS and will cost even more to maintain. The more I think about it, I'm thinking those non lockup 518's may be a version that had issues with the OD clutch packs. I can't remember now. I'm going to look into it for a refresh of memory.