Thread: Is my Torque Converter on right???

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Hello Everyone! . I hope you all had a great week-end! ..... I'm getting ready to put the motor in my '32 Ford & I put the torque converter onto the shaft that's coming out of the transmission {I've taken torque converters off before but never put one on}. I put fluid on the shaft & inside the converter so it was slippery. It took forever to get the converter to push on but finally it went in. But my question is this; Should the converter wobble around once it's seated on the transmission shaft? It seems to me as if the transmisson shaft should seat firmly into the spline's inside the converter & not wobble. But it's not a firm fit at all. Is this right? {I'll try to say this next part without confussing you!}; I bolted the transmission adapter to the engine {I'm hooking a 392 hemi to a Chev.Turbo 400 transmission}. I measured the distance from the surface where the transmission mounts to the transmisson adapter to the mounting point on the torque converter. This is 1". I then measured from the mounting service of the transmission adapter to the surface of the flex plate that bolts to the torque converter. This is 7/8". So this leads me to believe that once the engine is in all I have to do is slide the tq. converter forward 1/8" & bolt it to the flex plate. BUT the wobble? Is this right? If the wobble isn't right then I'm thinking my tq converter is still not fully seated & that I have {rather they sent me} the wrong spacer that goes between my flex plate & crankshaft flange..... THANKS Bill