c6 help pleeease

[awfulaggravated]

here i go, i slide my fresh c6 under the ol girl today, put my insp.plate on ,new fly wheel , same spacer and same bolts, new torque con. slide everything in and went together ok, after i tighten up the bell housing bolts ,i try to turn the crank and get to the t.c. bolts and nothing ,she locked up tighter than a farmers favorite sheep, is it that damn insp. plate? i can see in there were the dust cover is and all looks ok, i made sure the t.c. was all the way in , the thing turn nice before i tighten up the b.h. bolts, then nothin?

[stuart1]

By the sound of that the convertor is not indexed in the pump properly.

Remove it and hope you didn't crush the drive gear.

[FordTrucksKickGM]

I agree. TC's can be a real pain to get indexed properly. Been there!