A.T. finally died. Wat do?, Rebuild A.T. or swap to M.T. Options

[travisxcore]

So my automatic transmission finally died last night. It made it 209k miles so I'm not upset with it. Plus it managed to get me all the way home doing its little super-rev (thanks Brian for giving me it a name ) thing. 1st is partially there. The bottom of 2nd and 3rd are gone. And as far as I know 4th is MIA. I knew it was coming (I had times when reverse wouldn't catch for the longest time) and the solenoids have been outta whack for a while now.

So my question to you is should I:

A. Rebuild my automatic transmission.
or
B. Swap to a manual.

Just some things to think about before coming to a decision:

-I have a GT
-Money is a concern-I don't have 3k to drop sourcing a MR2 swap
-Mechanic/Labor/Blah isn't a concern. I have plenty of friends (and myself included) that can do either or no issue.
-Time is kinda of an essence thing, my Celica is my only car so currently I have to share with my mom (Galant ) and with me working 6 days a week were gonna have some issues.
-My bud has a wrecked manual ST that would pbly give me a lot of the parts I need for cheap (besides the tranny obviously)

Now why I'm asking you is because my friends and I are split on what I should do. I want a manual and I feel like this is the perfect opportunity but some of my friends feel as though I'll end up putting more into the swap then it would cost just to buy another Celica. To a point I agree with them that could possibly be true.


So 6GC, wat do? I want opinions for both options. Thanks!

This post has been edited by travisxcore: Jul 7, 2012 - 7:37 PM

[trdproven]

its something like solenoid #1, #2, and i think something like lock solenoid, i dont remember too well. All i know is each solenoid controls certain gears, and Im not too detailed on how it works, i remember reading on it somewhere to try to understand it but i dont remember anymore, but thats how I got into those shift solenoid fixes. I remember like tranny code whatever for example, 63 is like solenoid 2 and 64 is like solenoid 1 and there is like a shift/lock solenoid. and then when i was under with the pan dropped, im pretty sure recalling to see a another solenoid you could change out because I remember i had to refer to drawings to figure out which one to change. and civics too has 2-3 but they are externally mounted on the tranny and those if you are lucky you just clean the mesh grill on the solenoid but thats for civics.

This post has been edited by trdproven: Jul 20, 2012 - 6:28 AM