Do I have a bad torque converter?

[superj]

And a longer flatt screw driver against the driver side bellhousing and ypu cam put the tip in the flywheel teeth to rotate the engine over and get the 4 bolts holding the torque converter to the flywheel.


Ours is done. Jarrod took the jeep for a few test drives and after we changed the fluid once it was installed and it rauns great so he took it home. I have the 97 blue tj now

 

[superj]

We found out that our 03 is a january build so we must have earlier lines than the later 03 this trans came from. The output shaft on the trans didnt come out on this new trans, where it came out on ours. And the cooler lines used different fittings on this trans. Last, of course, the exhaust mount used metric bolts from the bottom up instead of the standard bolts our original trans had

 

[TerryMason]

I managed to get the transmission dropped yesterday. The transmission jack made things a lot easier.

I used a socket on the crank bolt at the front of the engine to spin it over and remove the flywheel bolts

I was able to jack up the front of the Jeep in order to slide the transmission out from under it.

I read this trick somewhere else, that you can measure the distance from the case to the torque converter and it will help you know if the new one is fully seated.

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[TerryMason]

Ours is done. Jarrod took the jeep for a few test drives and after we changed the fluid once it was installed and it rauns great so he took it home. I have the 97 blue tj now

That's great man, good work.

 

[superj]

i noticed when i practiced seating the torque converter out of the jeep that its not flush with the bell housing fave when fully (3 clunks) seated. If you only have two clunks, the torque converter bolt holes are basically flush with the mating surface of the trans to the engine amd when the third clunk happens, the tc bolt holes seat back about .5 to .75 of an inch from that mating surface.


I had to turn amd wiggle a few times to find that spot where it seated fully and redid it a few times to be comfortable with how it sat.

The torque converter has some flats cut in the end that goes into the transmission input side. I think those are what we are trying to seat on the third clunk


That jack definitely looks better then how we did it. Holding the trans and then tcase up with your arms so you can pull the regular jack out was not fun. Trying to keep it up while pushing in amd trying to get bolts started was probably alot harder then it ahould be when doing it the way we did it.