Inspect and Prepare Dowel Pins, Install New Torque Converter

that was my plan taking note uh the dowel happened to come out with this transmission the alignment dowel you definitely want to make sure that those are still in the block when you go to put the other one on because the those are doing all the work when it comes to holding the transmission position against the block while it's like trying to turn the bolts to hold it against the block the dowels hold its rotation so yeah that one's still there that one's not we're gonna have to punch that one out stuff it back in there we're gonna take this car to yellow belly i don't know kind of scared too but i want to we'll see getting back cranking on the monte carlo today had a little bit of like a two and a half day hiatus on working on it to paint the mural on the wall instead which is on a separate video you can go check out after this one which you definitely should uh yeah looks pretty sweet anyway not going to spend a ton of time on there but in that video i'll show you how uh we did all that gonna get this thing back together first order of business is to find the old bfh and smash these edges up into the tunnel so there's not a big lip here which is something i never did because i built the tunnel with the transmission in there so uh yeah once it was installed this is like you know out of sight out of mind now it's insight in mind what's that do we have something to cut this these nuts you know i'm in working under the lift mode when my hat's backwards so i don't hit my head on stuff converter moved over from the old one to the new one tanner had expressed concern about putting his little converter in here until he realized that it was not a stock one this is like a billet triple disc one that was in the escalade before and it works good pretty sure it's in there now see if it does it this thing already has fluid in it so i'm not gonna bother um getting new fluid before i know this works i'll just toss them in there make sure it does its thing and once i know it works then i'll you know pull the plane and fling me put new fluid in it probably maybe i won't well i had the time lapse all set up ready to go and i forgot something from the other night you might remember the dowel i did not take the dowel out of the other transmission sometimes these things are pretty stuck sometimes you just gotta bang it