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Lee I have been there, too thick gland nut. I have had problems with the gland nut that people have mentioned. Make sure you have the right part. Too thin a glandnut from an autostick caused me lots of aggrivation twice because my local vintage VW kept on giving me these. It was no fun being at the parking lot at Disney Land with cracked converter and a broken flexplate. I used a case of tranny Fluid to get back to San Diego, lots and lots of angry people behind me. Your problem is not the one above but I think it was a good idea to let you know what happens when wrong parts are installed. You may have one of three problems: You have a manual tranny glandnut with the bearing inside, the inside is scuffed or has debris, or you have one of those superduper thick glandnuts that I bought and removed the bearing. On these problems, the engine went in but I had that converter gap. My final fix was the following: - bought standard glandnut of standard thickness, no performance nut needed on an autotranny. This was for a stickshift. it is better if you can get a auto one, it is just a standard one with the bearing never installed. - Removed the pilot bearing from the new glandnut, pried with small screwdriver, small hammer and vise, you can be creative. - Carefully filed the inner scuff marks with tiny fine round file. Made sure nut went over the torque converter stud bump. - I rehursed installing the converter to the engine while out of the car to insure no gaps, I even chose the best position that this would lie flat as I bolted it in to see which mount was flushed best with the plate. I made a mark with white out. The best thing you can do is remove the engine and rehurse, you may find out that the glandnut is wrong so you must get another. Make absolutely sure that there is zero plate bend or gap, otherwise this would cause the plate to break and may take the converter with it. There should be a little inward gap, opposite to your present outward gap. The Glandnut should fit snug on the converter stud bump, not so tight that force is needed (hitting, hammer etc..) not so loose that side play can be seen or measured ( 1 mm is too much, autostik ones gave me a 3mm or more play). These tranny's should last over thirty years as long as you replace fuid regularly, adjust bands every few years, put the correct parts in and impliment careful procedures when installing. Do not forget to put in the GL-5 oil in your differential box as the previous owner of my car did; I am fixing the damage this weekend, differentials do not like to be run dry, they will die , even if finally oil is put in, damage to the bearings has already been done, now lots of noise can be heard. Heed the warnings: This way you will never be limping your car from Disney Land. LEON MARTINEZ 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA - ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/