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Old 11-18-2003, 02:17 AM
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Help Installing new torque converter?

When everything is unbolted, what is the correct way to pull the transmission away from the engine? I've not done this before with an automatic, but have pulled many a manual trans. I'll be using a floor, transmission jack to pull it back far enough to switch converters. What is the correct procedure to bolting up the new converter and re-attaching the transmission. Do I pour some automatic trans fluid in the converter before I install it? After I get everything back togeather, how much more trans fluid should I expect to add to the transmission? Any other advice is appreciated.
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Old 11-18-2003, 09:14 AM
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When installing the converter on the trans it will clunk 3 times as you slide it in. The second two the most noticable. (The last one the hardest to get.

If it hasn't clunked, and isn't noticably back from the forward edge of the trans, it's not in far enough. If you proceed without it being in far enough, you will destroy the trans, and converter.

Once you have it in, bolt up the trans. While doing this, the converter should spin freely.(If not, it hasn't been installed properly, as above)

Then proceed to install the converter bolts one at a time.

Please note, that the bolt pattern for the converter, is not perfectly symetricall.(the converter will only bolt up one way) so it may take you a couple of trys to get it right.

Hope this helps.
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Old 11-18-2003, 09:27 AM
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i've pulled a trans out of a cougar before, to change the front seal. i have found it much easier to yank the converter etc while the trans is completely out of the car, and slid out from under, even on my roadrunner

i would put the car on 4 jackstands, that way it's easy to get to the driveshaft yoke straps, and the bellhousing bolts. then disconnect shifter linkage, kickdown, cooling lines, driveshaft, and reverse light/nuetral safety switch wires (basically anything on the trans holding it up). the proceed to pull it down and swap converters.

when i changed the converter on my rr (engine out of car), i do remember filling the converter full of fluid, and adding i think 2 or 3 more quarts, i don't remember as it was a few years ago.

good luck!!
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Old 11-18-2003, 11:26 AM
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Thanks guys, this will help me alot.
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Old 11-18-2003, 07:41 PM
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i just did this project over the weekend. pour as much fluid into the converter as it will take. this will take along time because you have to wait awhile for it to drain from the hub into the converter.
i drained about 8 qts out and put about 7 back in. smaller converter. i changed my converter while it was still on the jack under the car. for a mopar, you need to have the car very high to get it out from under the car. put the whole car on jack stands like 72 rr said. you may need to change flex plate or drill old one from 5/16 to 7/16 converter bolts. i put a new flex on. put on converter bolt in tight and spin the engine all the way around to make sure the converter bolts line up. then go back and put them all in once there all lined up. or if you need to get a flex plate, match it up and on one ear or area of that bolt hole paint it a weird color so you could match it right up. change that dam filter too!
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