LOL
Born and raised on LI, only in Louisville for a year now. Actually DD #2 graduated U of Hartford in 2011. Coincidentally, the trans on the '98 was rebuilt just south of you by Denny Cunningham of Denny's Transmissions in Bristol, CT. Got towed there by AAA after the trans had what was described as a sudden and catastrophic fluid loss on I-84 the day before Thanksgiving in 2008. I forget what let go, but it essentially dumped all of the fluid almost at once onto the exhaust pipe resulting in a whole buncha smoke....Denny did an awesome job, really knew his way around the 4T65E and gave me a 2 yr 24k mile guarantee.
Just after the warranty expired DD had it towed to a shop in NJ by her BF's house after all forward motion had ceased....turned out an axle seal failed and slowly drained the fluid out. Local tech replaced the seal, filled it up with fluid and it ran perfectly. Made me think it was a good rebuild if you could run it dry with no extensive damage. Once they got it running, they dropped the pan, changed the filter and filled it with fresh fluid. I figured another fluid/filter might be a smart investment at 153k miles.
