One heads up if this is your first automatic install
MAKE SURE you install torque converter on transmission correctly or you WILL break the main pump in the transmission.
Torque converter has slots and splines that must match up INSIDE the trans to engage the main(front) pump.
Put torque converter on to input shaft and slide it towards the trans, it will stop.
Now rotate the torque converter in either direction and push in on it while doing so.
You will feel it slide in more and a click, usually there will be 2 or 3 slide ins and clicks.
That is the torque converter locking in to the main pump and drive.
If for some reason the torque converter should slide forward during install, repeat process.
When bolting bell housing to engine the torque converter should not be in the way, bell housing should go on flush to engine and the torque converter should slide forward to be bolted to flexplate.
NEVER use bell housing bolts to force trans on to engine block, you will wreck the trans, full rebuild wreck.
I did break the main pump on my first automatic install, many others have as well, and it is an expensive lesson to learn, because you get everything back together and fire up the engine, then put it in gear........................nothing, no Reverse, no Drive no "gears", just nothing.