Quote Originally Posted by Russell
I now know this a common issue. Dealer even has a TSB on the problem, It is not broke enough to fix (could last a long time) and does not require a complete rebuild. Looks like an independent tranny shop can handle the repair. I would not know these things without the members of this board.

Thanks,
Knowing what I know now, I would have just performed the repair. The only real bad part is that, in my case, pieces of the offending gasket ended up in the recesses of the transmission, however, none got lodged in the valve body though so shifting never really suffered.

In my case, the frictions and steels of the internal clutches, the bushinges, the seals, everything inside the transmission was in great shape at 140K miles. It didn't need the rebuild, it was fine except for the offending gaskets.