Originally Posted by Pete Burton

I'm considering flushing the torque converter as a precaution for it being clean. The trans I'm going to rebuild has "failed" without throwing chips of any kind. I suspect the K1 clutch pack has excessive wear, but I won't know until I get it completely apart, and that's a couple of special tools away. If it's really clean, why do they suggest flushing it? Kind of goes against the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy. Maybe flushing it removes very, very fine metallic residue - not chips. That's all I can think of.