stall install problem

its a 4l60 with a brand new stall. when i put the trans back in and get all the bell housing bolts tight. i started on the converter bolts i can tighten the first one down then turn the motor over with a socket and get the second one but when i it comes to the third one it bindes up nd will not turn at all. it just dead stops not allowing me to install the third bolt, so i tryed taken the two i tightened back out and now it cant roll it over far enough to reach both that is tightened now, i can olny get one.

any ideas on why it would lockup like that and can i take the trans out with the converter bolted to the flywheel still

I've see a motor pulled while verter was still attached to flywheel. But not a tranny dropped with verter on flywheel still...
As far as this issue goes on the bolts. I ran into same thing. U have to get all three started. Once they are good and snug u can tighten them

I wouldn't pull the transmission without pulling the converter too...if you left it on the motor it would be difficult to seat the converter into the transmission

ill take the converter off after i get the trans out. i just cant get to the third bolt on the verter to take it out with the trans

So you're saying something is binding up in the motor or trans not allowing it to rotate a full 360 degrees right?

Sounds like the converter is not seated properly on the pump or you have a wrong style converter on the transmission. The old style had a pilot about half inch in diam. New style input shaft doesnt have the pilot. If you have the right converter check that the pilot going in the center of the crank isnt dinged. Test fit the converter to the flexplate without the trans.

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So you're saying something is binding up in the motor or trans not allowing it to rotate a full 360 degrees right?

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ya thats whats going on, i know it not the motor and the trans was good when i took it out, how many clicks does the converter have to click on before its on properly

You should feel 2 pronounced engagements when you put it on.

Yeah some say two some say three. I just did mine again and it was a solid two.