The first thing I thought was trans oil pump drive not engaged properly inside the converter.............I killed my vl v8 tri-matic that way..... lesson learned.

Is that circlip just there to stop the oil pump drive sleeve moving off the input shaft (or to keep the pump drive engaged to the pump turbine)?

The Traumatic I killed sounded horrible from the first start after being re-installed, the pump drive turbine inside the converter was hitting the stator vanes because the pump turbine was being pushed forward due to it not being located on it's drive splines properly.....cost me a new box & converter.....metal through both = my epic fail!

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