"...quite a bit of transmission..."
that's how I got my wagon. Fluid pouring out as fast as poured in.
Simple replace of that 1st gasket - a piece of paper @ frnt of 'pump'.
(last guy, I guess, cant C how it'd tear, ripped w/some wrk/reassembly).
Mid-Fox is such a piece of history... the "transitionary vehicle of everything".
(mine's the 3.8L, 2 jet throttle body. They had 4 motors, 3 or 4 transmis, 3 or 4 models.
End of all that as - my belief, wages no longer matched product price, so companies no
longer offered so many options in attempts to lure in more customers). Grenade-a thru
'04 (some claim more) stang - 2.5 decades of just over 8.5 feet.