auto tranny install, any tips/hints on easier way to do this Options

[treydawgs4g63T]

Just curious if any of you have any tips/hints on an easier way to install an automatic transmission? i am having a heck of a time doing this and ive never had this much trouble installing a manuel trans. I tried to install it tonite but have had nothing but problems so i give it another shot tomorrow night.

thanks

[SCCA Stang]

just be sure to completely seat the torque converter into the trans pump (turn it until it seats) before bolting the engine back onto the bell housing or you will crush the pump and your trans will need to be taken back apart to have that pump replaced again.

and if you get the trans and engine lined up but are shy of mating them flush together by about 1/4 inch.... don't use the bellhousing bolts to draw them into each other.... they should line up and mount flush on there own.... if you try to force them together, see my first paragraph and take them apart and try it again.

sounds like I have been there before doesn't it!!!!
only I didn't stop.... I crushed the pump and proceeded to start the car and try to put the car in gear, sending metal shaving from my crushed pump all throughout the trans..... after a trans rebuild, a new pump and a new torque converter later I got it right the second time around.