Man... has it been 2 years already

[Geno]

What's up guys and girls. I guess I've been busy for a while because when I went to log in I couldn't remember my password so I had to do the "forgotten your password?"thing. Anyways, I'm having I lot of bad luck lately with my baby. Not mentioning 1 year and a half ago while showing off spinning my tires I lost control and hit an abandoned truck before hitting the abandoned house it was park in front of ( totally munching my left bed) I had a transmission break down recently. After getting the tranny rebuilt, new torque converter, a new battery, new flywheel, a new starter, new battery cables, THEN (because it sat so long) I had to have my carb rebuilt. WHEW! Well I finally went to drive it out of storage, started it up, put in gear then...NOTHING! The truck never sounded so good but it wouldn't inguage in any gears. It didn't click or nothing. Yes the lingage is connected and everything seem to be inplace however, since I dindn't have the money a "Backyard Mechcanic/Laborer" itstalled it for me and he broke the dipstick and had some "Extra bolts" left over. MY question is would a lack of tranny fluid be a possible cause to this problem. I only added 5 quarts and until I find a replacement dipstick I don't want to chance ruining my new trans.