1995 Land Cruiser Transmission Leak

I hope this helps someone else...
I inherited a 1995 Land Cruiser from my father-in-law, I guess more gifted as he is still living, just unable to drive. Last year I took it in for PA state inspection to a shop and mechanic I trust. Normal age related and wear items needed to be replaced. Although, one item was noticed that was an issue for drivability. That was a leaky transmission oil pan.
This cruiser had a transmission that NO ONE could get me a pan for. Even contacting scrappers form here to Japan yielded no success.
I got frustrated and (too late, but better than never) crawled under the cruiser and inspected for myself.
Good news!
The pan was not bad...the tube was...
1. The mechanic was wrong about my leak, the leak was from the tube where it meets the pan.
2. That did not change much, as the tube only comes with the discontinued pan.
3. So on to the repair...
I took the advice of other and blasted the pan and recoated it anyway, then removed the old tube by cutting and drilling it out of the pan to then accept a copper flex pipe.
My friend then braised the copper pipe in place and we cleaned and ground away the burrs. I then reinstalled the pan and attached the now new copper pipe to the existing tube with 5/8 transmission hose and hose clamps. So far its working well.