ChevypickupTPI

How do you know when your torque converter is goin out or has totally gone out? Becuase i have a th350 that wont do anything. doesnt even have reverse. i was told that if it was a borken sprag it would have reverse. Plus before it totally went out it was making a noise like wet shoes on a tile floor, when the tranny was cool if that helps any.it would only make that noise in reverse or drive not while it was just idling. Please help.

ryan

[This message has been edited by ChevypickupTPI (edited September 10, 2000).]

AlkyIROC

You may have done some damage. After the first race of the season I destroyed the sprag in my TH350. I didn't realize it until after the end of the second race. During the second race I had no manual 2. Putting it in drive, it only shifted twice. Finally I had no forward or reverse. When I pulled the pan I saw the parts from the sprag. A piece got into the pump and seized it up also preventing hydraulic pressure to move the car. As soon as I lost power I shut off the engine. It's a good thing because without the pump working I almost seized the converter shaft to the pump. It's possible that you've done the same thing. I picked up a used tranny from the junk yard and switched over all the hard parts that I broke. The clutches were still new so I reused them. It cost me $50 in parts to fix it and I ran the rest of the season with this quick rebuild.

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