[DML] Auto Trans Converter Noise

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been chasing down a mysterious noise from my recently-re-
installed engine in my automatic project car. All I did to the trans 
was replace the torque converter seal and some general clean-up, new 
gaskets, o-rings, etc. 

The problem I'm having is a hellacious noise from, apparently, within 
the torque converter. It sounds a lot like a dry scraping noise, in 
fact first we thought maybe oil starvation in the engine somewhere. 
I've now gotten under the car while running on a lift and it's 
definitely the converter. The other related, odd symptom is that, 
with the engine off, trans in-gear, turning the axles (together) 
causes what sounds like a gurgling noise in the coverter itself. 
Obviously in the process of changing the seal the converter was off 
the trans and most of the oil ran out of it. So - it seems that the 
converter is full of air as well as fluid. The car does drive OK, it 
just makes this very scary noise that could well be a much louder 
version of the gurgling noise that I can get with the engine off. 

Is there something that I should be doing to bleed the converter? Is 
this a symptom of some greater problem? I've been into a few non-DMC 
automatics and never seen anything like this. 

Dave Swingle






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