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Terry might have had (ok that's bad passive English) reason to be skeptical of my motives, we had a rather heated discussion about the Aussie bar that resulted in the threads deletion!

So I'm willing to give him a pass on this one and not hold it against him.

FWIW, even though Terry and I argue sometimes here, when I have my transaxle rebuilt, I know who I will contact, Terry Haines.

Just another $0.02 worth of my opinion.

I do agree with the general premise that it doesn't always take an expert to have the right answer. But rarely do non-experts answer the really difficult questions correctly.
For example, Easter weekend and I'm doing a simple memory install on an E10000 system.
Should take all of 1 hour. Eight hours later, and after having
backed out all changes we've made (that was step three of our recovery)
the system was still down. It took another 12 hours
on the phone with the engineers who built the system to
get the problem resolved. The diagnostics, the facts
and the results all were contradictory. It took me eight
hours to conclude the diagnostics were lying to me.
It took the factory engineers another 12 hours to figure
out why.

It still takes experts to solve the difficult problems.
And to be fair. Even if I diagnose a transaxle problem,
you sure as heck don't want me trying to repair it!

Thanks to all who contribute here,

TB