I'm planning on installing a torque converter this week. Anybody have any advice or even better , a list of steps to make this as easy as possible.Thanks.
If you have a good size floor jack that you can get the transmission adapter for, you'll be so much better off. In all honesty, you don't even need to pull the trans completely out from under the car if you have that available, but you'll need to pull your driveshaft, disconnect the trans cooler lines (get a can of trans cooler flush from your local auto parts store), and probably have to remove your H pipe.
I'll put together the steps necessary here:
Disconnect your battery
Unbolt the starter from the engine
Drain the trans fluid
Take off your H pipe
Take off your driveshaft
Unbolt the trans cooler lines
Disconnect any electrical connections, speedometer cable, and shift linkage
Put jack under the transmission
Unbolt the 4 torque converter-to-flexplate bolts (Having a friend will make this go quicker, since they can rotate the engine by hand for you. You can do this step as step 2 by bumping the engine over without starting it, but I prefer this method)
Unbolt the bellhousing-to-engine bolts and pull the jack backwards.
Remove stock converter
Fill new converter with fluid and place onto transmission. Rotate by hand until it's fully seated.