Flexplate

[gophersnake]

About 12 years ago something came apart in my drive train and I had to have the truck towed home. I managed to get a good enough look between the engine and transmission to determine that the big flat, triangular piece of metal that connects the crankshaft to the torque converter had broken.

It took a couple of days' hunting around new and used parts places for a "flywheel" before I learned that the piece I needed was called a "flexplate". No one seemed to know where I could find one, new or even used. I finally commissioned a local blacksmith (that's right!) to make me one. Between my template and his workmanship, we must've done something right; the part is still in there and working.

If it should break someday, is there someplace I could get an official one or would I have to ask my blacksmith to try again? I did find a website just now that advertises, "We stock (brand) Flexplate for most makes and models" but "most makes and models" seldom seems to include '68 GMCs, especially with a 351 V6.

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'68 GMC C2500 with 351 V6, Turbo Hydramatic 400A.

My other car is an '80 Honda Civic.