Torque Converter Spacing / Shimming: Tech Tip Tuesday

hey guys Tyler here motion race works back here with another tech tip Tuesday today we're gonna tell you about torque converter spacing we have tons of guys that ask questions about this and it can be kind of confusing so we're gonna try and clear it up for you first we'll show you a little flashback from when we're building the Balder eagle here we go we're just using some washers to shim the torque converter to flex plate spacing correctly so if you push the torque converter all the way into the transmission you want to pull it out I think it's it's 1/8 to 3/16 of an inch so you need to at least pull it out that far so if you have if you bolt it up with the torque converter pushed all the way into the trans well if the torque converter baloons it off it will either break your pump because it'll push into the trans or it'll take the thrust bearing out on the crankshaft because it'll it'll try and push the crank out of the front of the motor and they'll eat your stress bearings you want to make sure you have that spacing correct so we pushed it all the way back in pulled it out an eighth of an inch and then put our spacers in alright so now that we've seen that let's do a little recap in summary on the white board so we can get into a little more detail in the video there you saw the area that we're working with which is actually between the torque converter and the Flex blade it's kind of blown that up here for you so pretty much what you want to do is you want to start by pushing the converter all the way back into the transmission and then you need to pull the converter out 1/8 to 3/16 is like the ideal amount to pull it out if you have to pull it out more than 3/16 to touch the converter pad to the flexplate mounting pad that's not good either because you'll start to disengage the converter from the transmission so you need to at least pull out 1/8 and if you pull out over 3/16 you need to fill in the extra space with some washers or spacers if you're going to use like standard washers at least check the thickness of them to make sure they're all equal otherwise a lot of converter companies will send different thickness of spacers with them and then those are all ground to about the same thickness so just remember you want to pull out at least 1/8 but no more than 3/16 that's our rule of thumb for converter spacing with all that said you should have the proper knowledge now to space your torque converter to flex plate properly so that's it guys thanks for tuning in come back next week for another tech tip Tuesday and don't forget to Like and subscribe [Music]

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Length: 2min 54sec (174 seconds)

Published: Tue May 26 2020