ncontt
06-19-2011, 11:29 AM
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, this SOB is about to get me bent 3 different ways to SUNDAY!
First I thought I had it seated all the way in, trans was on my bench, I lug the thing 25 feet to the car, go to stick it under to slide it up on jack b/c the trans won't fit under the car while being on the jack. I have to tilt the trans up a bit on the tailshaft to get the top of the bellhousing to slide up under the body of the car and you know what happens next....ya, converter slides out, not all the way out, but far enough. Long story short, I wrestle with it for another 1.5-2 HOURS (off and on cause I was so PISSED!!)(oh, in a light drizzle no less, 2000% relative humidity) that I FINALLY snatch trans and converter out and lug the 25 feet back to put it up on my bench to see WTF the deal is..., old converter pops right in, click, click click, it's like the grooves that are going into my one piece shaft are not machined cleanly enough to allow it to go all the way in.
Spline count has been verified already so that's good, the only thing that concerns me is that the NEW converter has "spots" for 3 shafts (like stock AOD), my trans has the solid 1 pc. shaft. so I'm wondering if it's (the shaft) bottoming out before it can seat all the way in there and allow the pump to grab the converter, you can def. tell it's not grabbing on the pump "ears" because it spins WAAAAY to freely....perhaps I just haven't lined it up PERFECTLY...but DAYAM, I should have been riding by now...lol :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
I may have to call PTC in the AM and see if they have any suggestions...
First I thought I had it seated all the way in, trans was on my bench, I lug the thing 25 feet to the car, go to stick it under to slide it up on jack b/c the trans won't fit under the car while being on the jack. I have to tilt the trans up a bit on the tailshaft to get the top of the bellhousing to slide up under the body of the car and you know what happens next....ya, converter slides out, not all the way out, but far enough. Long story short, I wrestle with it for another 1.5-2 HOURS (off and on cause I was so PISSED!!)(oh, in a light drizzle no less, 2000% relative humidity) that I FINALLY snatch trans and converter out and lug the 25 feet back to put it up on my bench to see WTF the deal is..., old converter pops right in, click, click click, it's like the grooves that are going into my one piece shaft are not machined cleanly enough to allow it to go all the way in.
Spline count has been verified already so that's good, the only thing that concerns me is that the NEW converter has "spots" for 3 shafts (like stock AOD), my trans has the solid 1 pc. shaft. so I'm wondering if it's (the shaft) bottoming out before it can seat all the way in there and allow the pump to grab the converter, you can def. tell it's not grabbing on the pump "ears" because it spins WAAAAY to freely....perhaps I just haven't lined it up PERFECTLY...but DAYAM, I should have been riding by now...lol :banghead::banghead::banghead::banghead:
I may have to call PTC in the AM and see if they have any suggestions...