thanks guys. and thanks Hellbent, let me know if you find it. ill pay fair price for it or some cold ones, whichever.
JXPEEJ, the ax4n in our 98 mercury sable wagon was rebuilt almost 2 years ago, but it just started acting up again. this time it wont shift into first gear. sometimes if you peddal the throttle it will engage, but then want to pop in and out. im thinking its the 1st/2nd gear sylinoid, but being the electronocly controlled device it is, i suppose it can be alot of things. hence the need of the service manual so i can go over its workings. the atsg manuals have trouble shooting and diagnostics, thats why i was looking for one of those. the car has some other ecm glitches aswell, as last month when i went to smog it it passed all emissions but didnt show any of the self diagnostics stored as if i dissconected the battery or something. but i didnt. no pass untill i figure that one out aswell. car is not worth investing too much into it so i will tinker with it myself for now. oh and our small town of fallbrook is in the middle of building a new library, so id have to go out of town and find one. im so lazy.