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

Found that removing the cable brackets and the shifting sensor? I think it's called. Clears some up top for easier install.

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.

thanks guys , i figured it out. The torque converter wasnt seated all the way and that sensor was holding me up also.

Make sure you loctite and torque the converter bolts correcttly also.. They can back out.

thanks and they are loctited

No prob

Nice to pass useful info to a fellow auto owner.

I've always filled the converter with trans fluid before installing it. I'm not sure it's totally necessary to prevent damage when you intially run the trans, but I imagine it makes it easier on the vane pump.

good tip.... you are accually supposed to do that.... it prevents running the converter dry until the pump has time to fill it.


maybe this should be a thread in the archives for good tech tips.

Just thought of something else. Do the autos have tranny coolers? If so, it's a good idea to flush out the cooler with fresh fluid to get rid of the junk that was circulating through the old tranny.

I don;t know.... they might because when I was in the market for a radiator the parts places asked me if it was for a manual or auto and the prices were different.

im not sure about all the autos but mine does have a cooler. Its an external cooler, but doesnt have anything to do with the radiator.

Yes they do. Atleast my 92 FWD auto had one.