I'd call BS on that immediately. When I was 16, I took my old Mustag to a tranny shop for a rebuild. Got it back and it didn't shift smoothly at all. They told me it was because "the valves were so clean, it'll take a while to break in". 3 months later tranny was toast, shifter was stuck in drive an wouldn't budge. Fluid was nearly black. Shop told me TS. Being a dumb kid what did I know.
Took it into our Phillips 66 station, they pulled the tranny.....and sent it to the same guy! The 66 station wouldn't give it back to me until they were satisfied with it, said they sent it back to the tranny shop "so they'd get it right". Told him the problem I'd had with thae same shop, he eventually dumped em for crappy work.
Long story short, if the shop did it right, that rebuilt AT should work like new, none of this stiffness or stickiness crap. Plus he gave it back to you without the dipstick? :banghead:Warranty time.
Totally agree on this.
There are such things as "tight rebuilds" than can have drag when real new, but a sticky linkage? No excuse for that.
This could be a misaligned valve body putting pressure on the linkage shaft, a bent manual valve, or a problem with the linkage itself.
The only way to tell is to disconnect the linkage at the trans and follow the tightness till you find it.
Also on the noisy gears, planetary sets that only had one or two of the 3 main parts they have replaced will have slightly mismatched gear teeth and can (almost always) be noisy.
This can go either way and get worse because the mismatch wore in and made all the clearances looser or wear in and get quieter because they match better.
Any good rebuilder will not match old planetary parts with new ones.
They would replace the sun gear, planet set and ring gear all at the same time so the new gears all wear in together.
The shift stiffness issue may or may not be just an adjustment to the TP linkage, but if they F'ed up that many other parts of the rebuild I wouldn't even count on it being installed as they say.
A TF3 should be able to give you whiplash if you adjusted it to do it.
I have built TF2's that made the glovebox door pop open on the 1-2 shift.
I recommended against it being adjusted that way because he didn't have the motor to support that tight and hard of a shift, but that's what the customer wanted.