For those of you in the BUILDING STAGE!

I learned a painfull and expensive lesson yesterday. I bought a lot of my parts during the time I was rebuiliding the car, painting, interior etc. Well, I bought a torque converter early on an parked it on a shelf until ready to install. WEll, a couple of years later when all was built and now the car has 1000 miles on it the converter is ballooning on me and must be replaced. Well, remember, most warranties start at purchase date NOT install date! So, with less than 1000 miles on it, due to buying it during the "building stage" I am well out of warranty. Jegs just said "sorry, Can we sell you another one?" Oh well, lesson learned. I guess next time I will build faster or not buy so many parts in advance. Just wanted to vent!!!

 

I have done that as well. What brand of converter?

 

Jegs house brand (TCI). I ran one years ago without any issues. Now I am looking...

 

"the converter is ballooning on me and must be replaced."

what does this mean and how do you know it is doing it?

...Frank...:Handshake

 

"Excessive pressures built up within the torque converter cause its shell to expand or balloon resulting in a build-up of outward pressure on the crankshaft" Creates a lot of noise under hard aceleration.

 

I have a TCI in mine. Had a B&M in it years ago, one day the front bushing spun out of the front pump and into the seal leaving a nice trail of trans fluid.

 

I have no leaks, yet! Just the swelling of the converter till it rubs. (At least that is what it sounds like)

 

It will keep trying to float away into the sunset.

 

Scotty P let me Highly recommend Edge converters and also Hughes. (I know there are alot of other good companies out there too) They Both make very good stuff and stand behind it well.

And just in case you`ve never been told before with Converters you get what you pay for...its worth it to bite the bullet and spend the extra cash in the long run.

 

Yeah, I know. But I had great luck before! I am looking at Hughes already. Just working on thr the stall aspect of the decision.

 

I highly reccommend Hughes convertors. They are very easy to work with. Jim Hughes is a racer and supports racers all across the country. With that said, I would call TCI and see what they say. They might be able to rebuild it for a decent price. Good luck.

 

TCI would hardly admit they make the Jegs name converter let alone offer me a rebuild. I fired off a tech build sheet to Edge and Hughes tonight. We will see. Now I am trying to decid on stall. I was fairly happy with the 3000 but may go to 3500 with the new one. Thanks for the input.

 

J&W makes a good one too.Daacos are good for the money.

 

STOP, change the converter before you wipe your thrust bearing! I know, it s^cks, but please don't tear up a good motor driving it.

Russ

 

RA, please elaborate