Crank end play, destroyed converter, 408 nightmare

fishy68 said

I have a hard time believing it was from the converter not being seated in the pump gears especially when he said he put nearly 500 miles on it. If the converter wasn't engaged properly in the pump how would it be possible to spin the gears in the pump to make pressure??? Plus, every time I saw someone do that it immediately trashed the pump gears. JMHO

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I finished the engine about 2 years ago and put it bolted to the trans into the car

then i put not much miles on it due to overheating and some other issues

then it destroyed the first converter

took out the trans with the engine still in car

took the trans to the guy who "fixed it" and put it back into the car

then i drove the few miles, engine still really hot and on the edge of overheating, really high oil pressure on wot sometimes up to 100psi

now i took out the engine because i wanted to bring the compression down with the head gasket (which is a shitty idea i know now), install the xe275 cam and do some other modifications
also the trans slipped from 2nd to 3rd gear


so with the first converter i had really low milage on it