Quick torque converter question

kjett wrote:It worked good on my stock motor, but I never got a real chance to see how well it worked on the new motor. I had a rookie mistake and didn't shim my converter clearance properly and smoked my tranny. The old converter was a 3500

The rookie mistakes are the ones that get you. I still don't know what happened with my brothers c6. We pulled the engine and trans to replace a seal, put it back in then it wouldn't move. We were told the converter needed to be spun on, I thought they did that. They said they did, but my dad was tightening the hell out of it to get the engine to match up with the tranny. I think he was blaming the pin that aligns them.

I"ll probably stay away from the boss hog and get a hughes.

Had that happen last year as well. The input shaft wasn't fully seated and when we slid the converter over it bottomed out on the shaft but not al the way in the pump. Made my clearances all messed up when we tried to bolt the tranny to the motor. Might want to give that a look see to make sure you don't have the same or similar issue.

We had another c6 sitting around so we swapped out the pump and we were good to go. We would have used the spare tranny but it wouldn't work with the transfer case.