Thank you very much for your reply...there is a hand lever on the left of the steering wheel for forward and reverse, no other pedal next to the throttle other than left and right brake pedals...up is forward and down is reverse, middle neutral, I put it in neutral when shifting to another gear, but nothing happens  now.....In front of the bottom of the gear shift lever is the filler cap I mentioned, with your expaination I assume now thats the gear box that takes the 90 weight? The fuel tank is is directly in front of the driver area up on top over the engine, so somewhere under that there is another oil filler for tranny fluid to a torque converter? Dip stick there by any chance? I wish I could walk outside and check, but its 2 hours away from me...thats why I am trying to gather all info I can before going up there again...