NOW what???????

Converter was fully seated, but had to come forward 1/4-1/2 inch or less before it made contact with the flexplate. Started all four flexplate/converter bolts, then turned engine over with a breaker bar to finish torquing them to spec. Ring gear cleared fine at that time. And no, nothing got beat on or dropped when the engine went in.....

And no, I fooked up and there's no fluid currently in the converter. Thought I'd packed it in the trunk when I took it to the shop. When I find out I didn't have it, it was 1-freaking A.M., I've been fighting this crap for 12 plus hours, the so called "plug" I got for sealing the tailshaft didn't, so I'm swimming in old tranny fluid, the guy whose shop I had to borrow to do the swap is pizzed because of the tranny fliud lake, my borrowed helper is pizzed because he's about 6 hours late getting home, and the nearest 24hr Wal Mart is 10 plus damn miles away. I'm getting too old for this ****.

It has a drain plug, so I'll either use a long tube and funnel, or a big syringe to pump fluid into it.

And BTW.......get new bolts to reinstall your headers when you do an engine swap. One might shear off in the head while you are torquing it down. Don't ask me how I found this out yesterday.......

This thing has been a Charlie-Foxtrot since I started the swap, .....at this point, I fully expect for something like a wiped cam lobe when I finally get this thing lit off.