Help: somethings not right
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ok well now its idling rough but the rattle seems to be gone at idle (don't know about when i'm driving) it almost seems like its bad injectors but the balance rates don't seem to show that
those look good in the futre add ECT to your PID file for good reference
ok so i pulled off the inspection plate on the trans and it looked like the torque converter is wobbling. it doesn't make the rattle noise as bad anymore but it does shake at idle.
well looks like a broken flex-plate, it actually looks like the flex-plate broke in half it looks like it broke and then spun around on itself and got jammed up together.
it looks like it broke and then spun around on itself and got jammed up together.
well looks like a broken flex-plate, it actually looks like the flex-plate broke in half
sounds like the rod bearings in my buick:rofl:
At least its not a piston
holy moly toby. that looks really painful. did that do any damage to the input shaft on teh trans as well? i'll assume that the converter could of had a wobble with the flex plate broken up like that. hope you can get it fixed up easily. and of course my offer to help still stands.
I'm not sure if Toby has ever put 2 and 2 together, but I went through that trans.....I recognize the pics from his sledpulling vids.
Since he has been putting it through it's paces for almost 2 years, I would say the bolts were tight.
I have been looking at the pics and trying to come to a conclusion.....the sleeve(pilot, hub) looks to have a piece that was missing prior to the recent breaks. It seems that the sleeve was the first piece to go and led to the flexplate cracking. If the flexplate would have went first, the converter would have stayed true in the hub as that would have been the only thing keeping it centered as pressure from the trans pushed it forward. You can see the holes are elongated side to side/up and down as opposed to being in a circular motion in which the converter rotates and it has not affected every hole. If the bolts would have come loose first, I beleive we would see signs on every mounting hole in the flexplate in the opposite direction. The sleeve is more crucial in centering the converter, as the same with the dowels in the trans adapt, the bolts just hold it together.
So, if you didn't realize it was me Toby...now you know....so do you need some help here or what? I know you didn't buy the parts from me, but I can still help getting the converter done. Might not be a bad idea to freshen the trans while it's out.
Since he has been putting it through it's paces for almost 2 years, I would say the bolts were tight.
I have been looking at the pics and trying to come to a conclusion.....the sleeve(pilot, hub) looks to have a piece that was missing prior to the recent breaks. It seems that the sleeve was the first piece to go and led to the flexplate cracking. If the flexplate would have went first, the converter would have stayed true in the hub as that would have been the only thing keeping it centered as pressure from the trans pushed it forward. You can see the holes are elongated side to side/up and down as opposed to being in a circular motion in which the converter rotates and it has not affected every hole. If the bolts would have come loose first, I beleive we would see signs on every mounting hole in the flexplate in the opposite direction. The sleeve is more crucial in centering the converter, as the same with the dowels in the trans adapt, the bolts just hold it together.
So, if you didn't realize it was me Toby...now you know....so do you need some help here or what? I know you didn't buy the parts from me, but I can still help getting the converter done. Might not be a bad idea to freshen the trans while it's out.