Well let me start by saying this has nothing to do with my tranny built....it's all being done by a 3rd party shop(my builder does work on the side and didn't have time to install the tranny for me).


Anyways, I'm working on my truck and I can't for the life of me get my converter to seat(ss3200). I finally broke down(after 7 finger stitches) and towed the truck to the closest tranny shop I could.

He looks at everything and tells me the converter hub is cracked.

I send the converter to yank only to find out the damn thing looks brand new. No crack nothing

The tranny shop insists that the converter is fucked up

Yank insists the converter is brand new(I side with Yank....obviously)

Now I have no idea what the **** to do. My truck is 6 hours away at home and my dad(with little to no auto experience) is stuck with the burden of helping me get it to somebody to fix it.

Anyways my question.....does anybody have any ideas why my converter won't seat in my new tranny?

It seats fine in my stock transmission but the new one it won't(new one has everything brand new-bearings,bushings,rebuild,and tons more)

I can get it seated on the first 2 set of splines but not the third and the converter won't spin freely(at all) like it does on my stock transmission.


Any suggestions?

 

do you have a new input shaft on in the new trans???

 

nope stock input shaft still(I hopefully won't be running enough power to break it). It came off a 2000 silverado(silverbrick's) and I bought all the parts myself so I know what's in the tranny. The ****** just won't spin.

I can spin the input shaft by hand so I know that's not the issue too(or at least I don't think it is).

 

I hate to say it but it sounds like the only option is that someone f-ed up something in the tranny. Wrong or bad splines??? I'm with you if Yank says the converter is like new and it fits fine in the old tranny, it just has to be something in the new tranny that isn't right.

 

exactly, I'm just trying to figure out what it is.

The 3rd party guy who was supposed to install everything said a stock converter spins and seats fine but the yank ss3200 does. It doesn't make any sense based on the info/BS everyone's feeding me.

 

where did the converter come from? is it used or did it come straight from Yank?

 

bought it off my buddy. It literally has 800 miles on it. Still under warranty. Yank said they did EVERYTHING short of cutting it open and it looks brand new to put it in their words.

 

what did he have it in?? have you compared the two input shafts and verified that they are EXACTLY the same?

 

kinda sounds like some fugged up splines somewhere...

 

put some good ole **** lube on...helps bigs things get in tight spaces..haha..my guess check all the splines and do a little wiggling around while ya spin it