Hello everyone, I installed a 351W in my Maverick, upon installing the trans using a "TCI-Street Fighter 3500 Stall Converter I am binding the converter when I pull the transmission bolts up. I am noticing that the "snout of the torque converter is setting 5/16" beyond the bell housing. Should I make a shim and move the bell housing out 5/16" or machine the material off of the snout. All help is appreciated, TonyJ
You either don't have the converter seated all the way or when I ordered a TCI 3500 stall it was a 1/4 inch to "tall". I finally returned it and had a stock converter re-stalled.
My70Mav, thank you for the input, I know that I have the converter in to proper depth, I can distincly feel it engaging into the pump after engaging the spline and the output shaft.
If you do have the converter seated properly then it will be below the mounting surface if it is the right converter.
Just to throw this out there, I had a problem like this once... turns out I couldn't bolt up the c4 because I didn't pull the manual bushing out of the back of the crank... Fit like a glove after it was remomved... I didn't realize I had a v8 out of a manual shift car...lol
Forgive me for not knowing, but when you reference a "manual" bushing in the crankshaft what exactly are we saying? I have a bushing in the crank that is a couple of thousands smaller than the diameter of the converter pilot. Is there another type of bushing that I should be looking for? Thanks, TonyJ
a standard shift car uses a pilot bushing in the crank to center and support the tail shaft on a manual trans... A automatic dose not use a pilot bushing because the converter is bolted to the flex plate, the bushing will interfere with the converter... Look on the end of your converter you will see a nub sticking out it recesses into the back of the crank... remove the bushing and the c4 should bolt right up... Automatics don't require a bushing....
