Ok guys, I'm having a shitty time with this tranny. I can't get my yank ss3200 to seat all the way in my tranny.

My question is: How easily is the converter supposed to be able to spin? I ask because my stock converter and stock tranny spin easily. My new tranny(brand new almost everything) and converter is pretty hard to spin. It takes a good push with one hand to get it to move.

So my question is, is there anything I'm doing wrong? Maybe a messed up install. I think the install is very solid. My builder has built tons of 4l60e's and is very competent.

So let me know if a firm spinning torque converter is normal and if there's an easier way to get it seated right.

Thanks

Oh and I lost about 4 hours because of this:
7 stitches and $240 later. My ******* hand slipped trying ot seat this converter and I sliced it on the tranny bellhousing plug

 

Gah man!!!

sounds like you got some of my luck!!

Did you put any fluid in the TC??
All of mine, i could spin them with my pinky finger.

and remember to put some fluid on the hub so that it wont leak at that seal.

 

it may sound stupid and obvious, but you have it in neutral right?

 

haha... we are tryin to turn the TC here... gear doesnt matter here.

Did you ever get the TC seated all the way?

 

Ouch man... I lost some skin on my tranny install too, but nuthin like that. Hope you get it all fingered out.

 

no its not in neutral but i dont think that should matter. i can get it seated on the 2nd set of splines but not the third.

 

OK we officially need a new sticky......Bodily harm carnage thread!

 

Ouch... that looks like it stung a bit. I angled the trans upward ~30 deg (usually sat the bellhousing on my lap facing me) for the install. I dunno if not filling the TC with fluid prior to install would make a difference with how easily it spins on the input shaft (may be wrong on this).

 

i think your fine random. just make sure it's seated all the way.

trans does not have to be in neutral for the converter to spin freely.

 

ok well I tried putting the yank converter on my stock tranny(I have 2) and it went on easy as hell. It spins freely, no problems no worries. I put my stock converter in my built tranny and it's the same problem. It almost feels like it needs to be broken in but I can't for the life of me get the converter seated in the built tranny.

Basically:

Stock tranny-easy as hell to spin and seat converter
Built tranny-can't seat converter on last set of splines(I can get it on the first 2), and tranny is hard to spin.