Originally Posted by ExtremeTint

First off if I'm in the wrong place with this post please 🙏 forgive me & thank you for all your help.

so long story short I bought me a $400 dollar civic about 6 months ago and have been dumping money Into it every since I bought it however never driving it except into & out of my shop during working hrs. When I drained flushed & changed all the fluids I noticed that the trans fluid was like a pink milkshake and at the time didn't realize it was going to need a rebuild until 350 dollars worth of trans fluid later & flushing it many many times. I finally insured & tagged the car to take it out on the street to drive it which to my surprise the transmission was slipping.

So I brought it back to my shop & immediately ordered a master rebuild kit with all new clutches & steels an upgraded filter a translab shift kit & a new torque converter. I pulled the trans & tore it apart and completly rebuilt it no problems at all. However while still on the jack stands before I put it on the ground I started it to let the fluids run threw the trans and as I was going threw the gears everything shifted fine.

now with my foot in the break "not thinking I needed to bleed the breaks as I went from reverse to park it grinded a little for about 1 second before I went back to reverse then killed the car and put it in park. Not thinking anything of it because it wasn't bad I put the car back together & drove it & it drove just fine & still does.

well the 3rd or 4th time I tried to go in reverse it acted like it was studering going in reverse so out of fear of messing up the new rebuilt trans I parked the car. The next morning at 2am I went back to pulling the trans & disassembling it again where I found metal shavings in the trans. So I tore it completly back down to nothing cleaned it all out put it all back together with a new filter "filter #2" and got it all back in the car filled it up & it drives just fine.

however after the 2nd build I now get a bad squeeking rattling noise in park & neutral, but in reverse & drive it goes away. It still feel a little hesitant in reverse but drives just fine.

I crawled under the car today & found out that the torque converter is what's making the noise.

video link here of me driving the car after the 2nd teardown.
https://youtu.be/39i6jGFx3NQ?si=Inip2RAP3amDOM1W

Video link here of me inspecting the torque converter today.
https://youtu.be/CQawhTyx4ms?si=tQzg5f5jVnFHLOZI

could the torque converter be the only thing wrong with it or what do you suggest? I assume the torque converter was not the greated from the get go as I bought a reman on on ebay for 98 bucks. My budget was tight at the time, and I wanted to save money. Although later I came across https://ausscasinosanalyzer.com/casi...otsgallery.com with casino reviews. I found out that they have slots gallery free chips. Now I've won a couple hundred dollars and want to upgrade my torque converter. But when I tore the trans apart for the 2nd time there was already a little bit of friction material in there along with the metal shavings. All the gears seem find & the parking paw seems fine I just didn't know if a bad torque converter would cause this stuttering in reverse or do I need to replace the reverse gears & servo arm & floating ring gear as well?

any suggestions would be very helpful.

TIA
Mike