Torque Converter Install on 90 ranger?

I posted this in my engine removal thread but I am hoping to get a quick answer. I am new to automatic transmissions and I don't want to have to take the tranny down again.

okay. How do you know when the torque converter is in place? This is my first time working on an automatic. I read that you turn it while pressing it towards the tranny and it will make a clicking noise and once it stops clicking its in place. Well I am not sure I have gotten to that point. When I wiggle and push on the torque converter it kinda clunks once, and moves towards the tranny a little then I wiggle more and it clunks again and it moves a little more towards the tranny. Now I have tried to wiggle and push it further but I am really not getting anywhere, and I am not sure what I should be feeling for. Now when it spin the tq converter clockwise (while facing the tranny) I just get kind of a sound like marble rolling around on a sheet of metal...or kinda like a ratcheting noise, when you spin a ratchening wrench the opposite way...but I am not feeling any resistance, and I still have not heard anything I would describe as a click....can someone please let me know how to do this right? If it matters I never took the tq converter off of the tranny when I removed the engine, I only unbolted it from the flex plate.

One other thing that I would like to know is, does the torque converter share fluid with the transmission? I ask because a little bit of fluid has leaked out while I am turning the converter...I want to make sure I can just fill the tranny fluid and the tq converter will have the proper amount of fluid too. Thanks.

You want to turn and gently push the converter in. You will feel 2 or 3 clunks depending on how you stab it in there. If you hear noise when you turn the converter good chance you have it in far enough. The way to tell for sure is when you have the trans bolted to the engine make sure the converter is able to still move, obviously it won't spin due to the studs but it should be able to turn enough for the studs to ding against the flexplate. If so you are fine. If the converter is pinched tight and wont' move you don't have it in correctly. Yes the trans fluid is shared with the converter. You didn't cut the pump seal while installing the converter? How is it leaking?

Matt

I hope it was in there far enough, because the tranny is bolted up now. What will happen if it is not on far enough?

On another note the oil pan on the 88 engine (engine going in the truck) does not have any oil level sensor in the side of the pan. Well the 90 engine that I took out does have that sensor. What problems am I going to run into not using that sensor? Will it just cause the oil light to be lit up all the time or are there other problems that can happen to?