d9gdon
Senior Member
Good on you for figuring out all those issues. Somebody had really done some shoddy work on it in the past.
That sounds like the situation on this machine. We're also trying to figure out what failed first.I had that happen on a D9G. I was lucky and found the end play first while pulling down the motor and convinced the owners that the torque converter had to come apart also. The vanes on the stator had lost their press and the outer ring had actually tilted the vanes and the ring was being held in a circle by one of the aluminum parts. I don't know whether the problem started in the engine and went back or started in the torque converter and went forward.