nope shifting manually from 1st doesn't work either, reverse is the only one. I limped it home shifting from 1st to 2nd to 3rd to D but by the time I got home that wouldnt work. I live on a really steep hill it just didn't have enough left to make it up so I had to reverse it up. lol Yeah from what ive been reading forward band sounds right. Im a pretty experienced mechanic but Ive never messed with transmissions before. Im seriously considering just getting a tech manual and going for it, doing a full rebuild with a kit from triple edge performance and 3.29s because all the estimates Ive gotten from the transmission guys around where I live were crazy like $1200. If I decide to do that does anybody know about what special tools I would need?