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Well, this is just one opinion. There will be builders and owners that have had better luck and guys that have had worse luck. There will be people who say, "I have never seen that" or "I did it before that point." Like I said in the beginning I said "tendencies". The original quality and consistency of the parts used is broad. Some of this is not law but a recommendation or guideline. Methods such as the pump refinishing is law.(The ones marked with an *) No matter what soft parts and band clearences are used , these tasks should be performed as mentioned. However I do feel that if you can reduce the likeliness of a problem and maybe overbuild to avoid having troubles down the road, why not? Money? How much to repair a transmission when it fails? Just an opinion. So if you want to lock the converter and or put some reliable power through a 2004R, this is pretty close as to what you have to do to make it live