[coreman30]

Thanks for all the tips... Yes the transmission has power going to it, i checked that with a meter, and it only has power to it when the ignition is in the on and/or run postion.... as well as each solenoid does not have constant power going to them (but probably did when the funky remote starter was hooked up).... And yes the remote starter was hooked up to both ignition wires, it worked fine - but since i found the melted solenoids i have completly removed the remote starter.... The trans fuse never blew so im "assuming" how the solenoids melted had something to do with the remote starter sending the wrong signals and/or wrong power somewhere....... like i said i removed the trans fuse while driving it to try and get the tranny to go into "limp home" mode, but even with the tranny not having power it still wouldn't go into second or third (limp home mode = has third only, and has second if you manually put the shift lever into second). I currently have the entire valve body removed and am rebuilding it. after removing it i also noticed the on/off TCC solenoid had a balloned end to it; the end of it was all swelled up. So what im planning on doing is replacing the TCC and rebuilding the valve body. hope this works........ any other suggestions would really help.. thanks.....

ps none of the check balls were stuck in the valve body plate