Somehow I managed to break the black plastic bit that the clips on the connector engage to hold in place, and so my transmission is hanging on by nothing more than simple friction. I know I, going to have to drop the valve body to replace it, my question is this: where the heck do I get the connector?

I have that same problem in another spot. It seems those retainer clips break too easy. Can you get some zip strips all the way around to tie it on that way?I'm looking for ideas to solve this too. I got a bad one on my 1st get ignition switch, afraid it will fall off and shut down the engine in traffic.

I have that same problem in another spot. It seems those retainer clips break too easy. Can you get some zip strips all the way around to tie it on that way? I'm looking for ideas to solve this too. I got a bad one on my 1st get ignition switch, afraid it will fall off and shut down the engine in traffic.

Well, we've got it 'retained' with some thin, aluminum wire creatively wrapped around the connector and down to the body of the transmission. You can pull on it quite hard before it moves, but not as hard as you could if, say, both clips were engaged. I really don't want to add this to the growing list of "crap to check every couple weeks."

I replaced one of these once. I think transtar has them.