My Experience with TCI.
When i put this car together, TCI seemed like the logical choice. My local speed shop set me up with everything, 3500 stall converter, full reverse pattern valve body, deep pan etc.
Being an old Chevy guy, i was used to the large opening from the inspection pan, and you could look up and see everything. So i bolted it all together, and drove the car about 400 miles in total over 3 years, lol. Well the trans leaked since day one, and i could not find the leak. It pissed me off to the point where i parked the car, and said hell with it.
We pulled out the transmission, and found that the TCI converter was not made properly and bottomed out in the crank as well as against the pump. It galled the shaft, and tore the babbitt bushing out, that worked its way past the converter seal and tore the seal. So thats where the leak was.
When i put this car together, TCI seemed like the logical choice. My local speed shop set me up with everything, 3500 stall converter, full reverse pattern valve body, deep pan etc.
Being an old Chevy guy, i was used to the large opening from the inspection pan, and you could look up and see everything. So i bolted it all together, and drove the car about 400 miles in total over 3 years, lol. Well the trans leaked since day one, and i could not find the leak. It pissed me off to the point where i parked the car, and said hell with it.
We pulled out the transmission, and found that the TCI converter was not made properly and bottomed out in the crank as well as against the pump. It galled the shaft, and tore the babbitt bushing out, that worked its way past the converter seal and tore the seal. So thats where the leak was.