I am confident that the converter is all the way in the tranny and all the
way in the flywheel. The converter was against the flywheel on all three
hubs. The problem is one bolt will not thread all the way in, or so it
seems. I think the problem is the one hub, where the bolts gets very tight
about half way in and will not tighten all the way. I feel like if that was
as the other two hubs then the converter would tighten up. Looks like I have
to pull it back out and check the thread holes and maybe exchange the
converter.
Thanks
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gary L. Perry [mailto:glperry@fwi.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2001 1:47 AM
To: joe; Tom; Oletrucks
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] torque converter problem
Tork convertor has a large center Protrusion that goes into the back of
crank where pilot bearing would be on stick. You are supposed to grease this
with white grease. The convertor has to be in trans all the way. Sometimes
you need to turn and lift it too have it fall into place and may be a
two-step feel, second one harder to find. Then install trans and pull it out
to meet flywheel hole in center, may need to rock a bit to have it "fall"
in. should pull right up to flex-plate (flywheel) and be able to turn easy,
no wobble. I'm betting you don't have the center in the crank. It will bend
the flex-plate, be careful. You think metric's bad, NOW at truck plant we
use a torx type bolt with big flange and small head. Try to get one of those
out in 10 years! Yes they go thru flex-plate from front and into tork
convertor that has threads in it. One thing I recently learned is the term
"flex-plate" is use because it actually flexes some when running and the TC
moves in/out slightly, thus why you need grease on center of it.
G. L. Perry
Huntington, IN
54 Chevy 2-ton (driver)
50 Chevy COE (project)
55 GMC COE (project)
MM Jet Star 3 (tractor)
----- Original Message -----
From: "joe" <chevy1@jps.net>
To: "Tom" <tomntam@earthlink.net>; "Oletrucks" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] torque converter problem
> I encountered a similar problem a while back. It seems the nose of the
> torque converter wasn't centered so it didn't want to allow me to tighten
> the torque converter bolts all the way. I just removed the bolts and
> rotated the torque converter 180 until it went all the way forward and the
> lugs of the converter were resting against the flywheel. You'll want to
be
> careful that you don't warp the flywheel by tightening the bolts unevenly.
> Good ole 13mm bolts.
>
> Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom <tomntam@earthlink.net>
> To: Oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Date: Saturday, April 14, 2001 8:53 PM
> Subject: [oletrucks] torque converter problem
>
>
> >I recently bought a torque converter to go with my TH350 that is going in
> my
> >552nd TF. The converter that came off of the transmission was bolted on
> with
> >three nuts and bolts. The new converter had bolts that screwed through
the
> >flywheel into the converter, which I was told made no difference. In the
> box
> >with the converter were three bolts along with a note that said the bolts
> >were metric and standard bolts should not be used. It could be a pain in
> the
> >neck down the road if a bolt should get lost or something, but not really
a
> >problem now.
> >However I got the converter on the tranny and the tranny up and bolted
in,
> >complete with cross member. As I am bolting the converter to the
flywheel,
> >with bolts provided, I noticed the 2nd bolt I screwed in started real
good
> >and then got tight. I spun it on around and screwed in the third bolt and
> it
> >went in fine. Two of the bolts tightened down tight but that one bolt
would
> >not tighten down all the way. I am able to see the threads and they look
> >kinda buggered up. Its not stripped, but when it is tight as I can get
it,
> >the bolt is still not tight against the flywheel. As a matter of fact if
I
> >tighten the other bolts one at a time, without the other bolts in the
> >converter, I can still wiggle the converter on the flywheel.
> >
> >I don't really know where I am going with this, other than to say, is
there
> >any harm, if I were to had some washers so the bolts would tighten up?
> >Should I take the converter back, to which they will think I used the
wrong
> >bolt, although they may not say that. Has anyone ever encountered a
> problem
> >like this? This is probably the one in a million.
> > Anyway thanks for the input,
> > Tom
> >
> >
> >1997 -2000 Racing Seasons
http://home.earthlink.net/~tomntam/index.html
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