i used fantastic finish marine in ohio who have a really good reputation with velvet drive rebuilds, shipped from CT. took the trans out myself (with some friends) which was easy, put it in a large hard plastic tote and shipped it to them for around $90 IIRC. they rebuilt it in about a week and sent out a new damper plate as well, i think all told it was around $1400 shipped back to me. it requires help putting it back in because lining everything up is the hard part, but it probably only took around 2-3 hours. much better than the $2500 my local shop was quoting me!