sick 727

This is the pump bushing and it is severely damaged. This kind of wear is often caused by one or mor of the engine dowel pins missing or a broken flex plate.  

This is the pump stater support, top. Pump gears, center. Pump body under the pump gears.  Inspect for wear like any other oil pump, there are clearance specs for the gears that should be checked. Sometimes you will see signs of metal transfer that is not good. Bushings should have little to no wear and no gouges. Often the outer surface of the pump gears are worn and grooved. The back side of the stater support not  shown has two sealing rings. the grooves wear to wide sometimes. I always replace the pump bushing and sealing rings with new.  Unexpectantly the body and gears look in good shape so I dont have pictures of bad gears for you.

This is the valve body, it has ten 1/4 inch bolts that hold it to the main case. Three at the front and three at the rear of the case. Four around the accumulator. If you look at the three holes at the rear you will see that the middle one is oval shaped. In a 727 the bolt hole in the case is to one side of the hole and in 904-998 trannys it is moved to the other side of the hole. Better picture of this latter.

Under the valve body is an accumulater. Shown is the typical spring arrangement. But I have seen then with a spring only on top. only on the bottom, springs top and bottom or no springs at all. Some shift kits use different springs or block movement altogether.