Converter install
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Converter install Here I go, I am I about to drop the trans out as soon as I 1) feed the kids 2)go get wife dinner
3) eat something myself 4) package up a camshaft and ship it out 5)go to vatozone and buy more trans fluid and drain bucket 6) buy kitty litter 7)change clothes.......8) finally start on the converter swap!!!
I am going to change the fuid and filter and install a cooler, maybe a trans temp gauge if I can find one at ho'reillys and wondering if there is anything else I need to do while the trans is out. I have a rear main I am going to replace as well. Sticking in a 3200 stall with the mods in the sig, hope I can tell a difference! I keep hearing how great a stall is and I hope the hype is true, wish me luck and thank god for vacation time, I am off tomorrow. Hope I can finish before I have too many
......**** its Wednesday, can I drink on wednesday? 
3) eat something myself 4) package up a camshaft and ship it out 5)go to vatozone and buy more trans fluid and drain bucket 6) buy kitty litter 7)change clothes.......8) finally start on the converter swap!!!I am going to change the fuid and filter and install a cooler, maybe a trans temp gauge if I can find one at ho'reillys and wondering if there is anything else I need to do while the trans is out. I have a rear main I am going to replace as well. Sticking in a 3200 stall with the mods in the sig, hope I can tell a difference! I keep hearing how great a stall is and I hope the hype is true, wish me luck and thank god for vacation time, I am off tomorrow. Hope I can finish before I have too many
......**** its Wednesday, can I drink on wednesday? 
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I would replace the front seal on the trans with a GM replacement. I replaced mine with an advance seal when doing my converter install and it had a slow leak ever since. I am replacing it with a GM seal this time and hoping for better luck.
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Thanks for the input I completely forgot about the pump seal. I use only GM seals, no aftermarket here. But on a side note, I hate GM, why in the hell would you use allen headed bolts for the torque converter? And to the stupid **** that owned the car before me why in the hell did you think it was smart to weld the exhaust all the way back to the muffler? I had 1 cutoff wheel left and FN broke it on the I pipe and rounded the **** out of the allen headed bolts and do not feel like hearing the air hammer tonight. I am done for the night, had a couple of and looks like there are more in my future, took tommorow off and looks like I will be under the car all day....................Damn I was excited to see what it would do. Anyone have any experience with a 224 cam and a 3200 stall? After all the BS I need some motivation to finish it, if not I will let it sit!!!!!!
and looks like there are more in my future, took tommorow off and looks like I will be under the car all day....................Damn I was excited to see what it would do. Anyone have any experience with a 224 cam and a 3200 stall? After all the BS I need some motivation to finish it, if not I will let it sit!!!!!! 
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Mine had regular bolts.
Oh and DON'T! lose the clips for the transmission cooler lines.
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It was only on the early LS1 F-body converters Mine had regular bolts.
98 so its one of the earlier one.
Motivation? 3200 is WEAK! get a big boy stall! hahahaha
Get a big stall????? The 3200 is big compaired to the stocker!!
Oh and DON'T! lose the clips for the transmission cooler lines.
Mine had regular bolts.98 so its one of the earlier one.
Motivation? 3200 is WEAK! get a big boy stall! hahahaha
Get a big stall????? The 3200 is big compaired to the stocker!!
Oh and DON'T! lose the clips for the transmission cooler lines.
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Might want to have a rear main seal and coverplate gasket on hand just in case, you can get the Timken part # from Rock auto parts. Be a good time to have the driveshaft serviced (new u joints and rebalanced) and give a good look at the oil pressure sending unit on the back of the engine for oil leaks, and I am replacing my flexplate (SFI rated is a good idea with a stall and racing) when I do mine early next year, and I am not reuseing any of the old flexplate or TC bolts, all ARP for me. Good luck 
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