The tranny was good, responsive and effective. Im assuming it was the original and it gave out @ 153k miles. I installed a similar one with 12k miles it took a few days for the computer to relearn the tranny. but it runs pretty great.
as for the soldering. all you need is patience.
Now im going tp swap the crankshaft sensor. good luck to me. I don't have a scanner to re learn it.