case is not broken, the trans will not accept third gear, unless you play with it for a few seconds, and it grinds and grinds real bad, so i usually dont even try. and then if it DOES take 3rd gear, it will spit it back out randomly at different rpms. sometimes it grinds going into 4th as well. the trans makes a ton of noise on decel, and 4th gear also grinds sometimes. and the shifter feels incredibly sloppy while its in gear, if its in first gear, the shifter will still move back and forth and a lil bit up and down (like front to back of car motion) it does not feel good at all.
i know NOTHING and i mean NOTHING about transmissions, so rebuilding it seems like the last ditch effort. and i would like to have a trans before woodward.