Hi all, long story short we bought a 1996 GPX25 with low hours at an auction not knowing that as it turns out needs major repair work. It has the Continental TMD27 Diesel that I got running last week but it would not shift or lift. I pulled the inspection cover on the bell housing and was stunned to see the torque converter missing. I'm trying to figure out what might have happened. I think it might go something like this: somebody broke the truck and the person that worked on it thought the torque converter was bad and pulled it and sent it in for rebuild. The shop that did the converter rebuild called back and said the converter was ok. That leaves the transmission as the cause. This is about the only thing I can think of that makes sense as to why somebody work pull the engine and then re-install without fixing it.

Does this make sense? Any thoughts on how I should proceed? Any checks that could be done to try and see is the transmission is bad?

Thanks, Dale