Pinto Car Club of America

Hello,I have a 1977 pinto. I recently rebuilt the motor and installed it in the car.  The tranny worked fine before the engine rebuild. The tranny was removed from the car and drained durring the engine rebuild.  Now it doesn't work.  All of the linkage is installed correctly, and I filled it with the right amount of ATF.  I also had the band tenchion checked.  It seems like the ATF is not circulating.  Anybody ever have this problem before or know what the problem is.  Any information would greatly help.  THANKS TIM

sounds like the pump. Did you put the engine and tranny together proper? The torque convertor needs to seat in the pump when you assemble it. If its not circulating fluid don't run it, you'll burn out the pump. The convertor will push into the end of the tranny all the way, then, rotate and keep pushing untill the convertor seats.

If you drained the Torque converter you may still yet be WAY low on fluid. I learned this myself on a GM TH400 trans. With the torque converter I'm thinking the C-3 will take at least 10 QT's of ATF

I checked my owners manual, which is for a 78 Pinto but they should be the same, and it calls for 8 qts tranny fluid in the C-3 but that's not including the torque convertor, so you could be a couple quarts too low.