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So the 1991 Toyhome I have been working on for two plus years came together enough last week to actually insure register and start some small road trips with. The transmission immediately started slipping, jumping in and out of gear and after getting gas two miles from home it just stopped moving except for reverse. A 75 buck tow later I have it back in the driveway. After a few days of research I have decided to pull the transmission and do an autopsy on it. Based upon the autopsy I will either rebuild it myself or find other options. The Back Story. The trans was slipping when I purchased it so I flushed it in the the parking lot of an auto parts store with 5 gallons of fluid. It then stopped slipping and the hundred miles to home went fine with a mix of interstate, two lane highway and local roads. I did not baby it. The cruise control worked perfect (much different than my 88 with the 22re) and the thing had plenty of power. Two years later I had rebuilt the thing to the point it could go down the road again. So I tossed the plate from 1988 on it and took it for a hundred mile run. The thing ran down the road perfect.... Not a hint of a transmission problem or anything else going wrong. This lead me to spend the last month working on this project without any thoughts of transmission problems. Back to the present . It has a great reverse but no forward whatsoever. If I could find it the emoji with the head banging the wall would be here... So I have spent the last four days looking into the A340E, have learned many things, seen many videos, pictures, pdfs, and have formed the opinion that there is not real danger in the actual dismantling of an A340E once it is on the bench (it has nothing spring loaded or pre loaded to surprised. Has a bunch of cir clips).. . The real danger lies in pulling the trans in your/my Backyard on the ground. I have spent today setting up for dropping the trans out the bottom uneventfully. Hope fully. So I am setting up to drop the trans and dissect in a way that I can share what is learned about the process. If anyone here has dropped one of these before any input you can provide might be a godsend.