hello,
when you find some spare parts for your tranny, make sure they are from 1997 and on models. except from minor but effective changes in the clutch pressure plate which reduces completely the drag, they also changed the supplier for the gearbox gears because untill 1996 there were some times producing parts for the transmition with bad quality control that resulted in some decimals of a millimeter in the parts.
hence many problems in gearboxes up to 1996.
this included also my 1994 that back to 2000 the tranny exploded and rebuilted with newer parts.
by the way, ebay.com now i think has many gearbox parts for you.