It is hard to document visually, but here are some pics along the way...
First, the opened up valve body itself.
This shows a bit of a side view, with a piston like thing. I had to take a couple of those apart to replace a spring.
Next is the separator plate. Several of the little holes here had to be drilled out to be larger.
Finally, here is one with the new gasket in place.
At that point, it was ready to go back in the transmission. Nathan and Kelly came over to help me with that and to help me do more test fitting of the cockpit. The only problem was that one of the little pistons seems to have something like a retaining clip or something hanging where I did not remember it before. It does not seem to be effecting the transmission operation, but I may take a picture of that and see what others online think.
The cockpit fitting went well. It is very very close to fitting now that the new shifter arm is in place. The rod rubs a little bit, but I still have a little room to play with making it work. One or two washers on one end should push it inbound enough to clear. The head of the bolt holding it in place is still too tight against the cockpit tub, so I may want to bend the arm just a tad to completely clear the tub.
This coming week, I will hopefully finish off the tweaks to the tranny stuff and be able to button that all up. I think I will also finish the touch-up of the frame rustproofing that I did last year. Working underneath as much as I have of late has really shown me how many areas got missed! And I may revisit my front brakes to see what it will take to get the anti-rattle clips on that should have been done last year.
