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2/22/2025 10:19 PM  #1


Spent Today Wishing I had a Lift

Installed my Circle D converter and did the prerequisite check of the depth (how far the converter slides forward to touch the flexplate), measuring with a dial indicator it was coming forward 0.380" which is waaay too much. Recommended depth is 1/8 to 3/16 (0.125-0.1875). I attribute some of this extra depth to using a midplate which added 0.165" between the engine and the trans. Just a note this truck uses a front motor plate and midplate instead of engine mounts. Anyway, had a buddy machine up some 0.230" spacers which put the depth right at 0.156", perfect. But then I started worrying that with that much of a spacer is the converter snout even getting in to the pilot hole in the crank? So out came the transmission, I put a bunch of grease in the pilot hole of the crank and slid the transmission back in then I moved the converter back and forth to, hopefully, get a good grease mark on the snout. After that the transmission came out again so I could measure. Looks like I have over 0.150" engagement in the pilot hole, so that's good as Circle D said anything over 0.125 is OK. Then I had to put the trans BACK IN, finally got it done a bit ago and man my back is telling me I need a lift for this kind of stuff.

As a side note this Amazon motorcycle/ATV jack works great as a trans jack.



Spacers super glued to the converter


Taking measurements


Just in case you're wondering what I am talking about on the measurements, everyone should do this when replacing a torque converter!


 

 

2/23/2025 6:59 AM  #2


Re: Spent Today Wishing I had a Lift

One of the many reasons I don't like automatics.  Those E4ODs are HEAVY. 

 

2/23/2025 9:34 AM  #3


Re: Spent Today Wishing I had a Lift

TKOPerformance wrote:

One of the many reasons I don't like automatics.  Those E4ODs are HEAVY. 

Since this vehicle is more race oriented thank goodness it has a C6, doing that with an E4OD would have been the end of me!
 

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2/23/2025 1:19 PM  #4


Re: Spent Today Wishing I had a Lift

Holy smokes, that Mustang is cleaner than a Safeway chicken! Looks like an operating room.


Bob. 69 Mach 1, 393W, SMOD Toploader, Armstrong  steering, factory AC.
 

2/23/2025 1:35 PM  #5


Re: Spent Today Wishing I had a Lift

Raymond_B wrote:

TKOPerformance wrote:

One of the many reasons I don't like automatics.  Those E4ODs are HEAVY. 

Since this vehicle is more race oriented thank goodness it has a C6, doing that with an E4OD would have been the end of me!
 

Ah, definitely a better option for racing.  I rebuilt the E4OD i my buddy's '95 Lightning years ago, and slinging it from the floor to the bench was quite hard, and I was a monster back then.  Probably couldn't do it today. 
 

 

2/23/2025 6:12 PM  #6


Re: Spent Today Wishing I had a Lift

I keep telling myself crawling on the floor will keep me fit.  Lol

 

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