Flexplate replacement

[choctawchevyclassics]

Bought this one about 4 moths ago. Found it on Craigslist, but never followed up on it. I was eating a burger (at S&B, great burgers) and saw it pull into the parking lot. I went out immediately. Said "it runs good, but it's got a cracked flexplate." It was very noisy. May scare some, but most of us on here know it's about an hour and a half job to swap one out. Made a deal on it. Been parked in front of my shop until yesterday. Pulled it in, pulled the dust cover and found the torque converter and flexplate would move side to side about a 1/4". Pulled the drive shaft, unhooked the tranny linkage, disconnected the tranny lines from the radiator, removed tranny mount bolts, removed 2 bottom tranny bolts and replaced with 4" bolts, removed the other 4 bolts, unbolted the torque converter, jacked up the back of the tranny, and moved the tranny back about 1 1/2". 5 of the flexplate bolts I removed by hand, the other was just over hand tight. Obviously the holes were a little wallowed out. New flexplate was already on-hand. Had to order some new ARP replacement bolts from the local Orielly's and will be on the road this afternoon.

[bill3rail]

Nice truck. Did you buy it from the same CL seller where you first spotted it?

[Domingo]

Im replacing the flexplate on mine too, wish I would know about moving the transmission back, I took mine down

[choctawchevyclassics]

Originally Posted by Domingo

Im replacing the flexplate on mine too, wish I would know about moving the transmission back, I took mine down

Not too bad to pull tranny, but leaving it inplace sure makes it quicker. With the (2) lower bolts in, it slides right back into place.

[choctawchevyclassics]

Originally Posted by bill3rail

Nice truck. Did you buy it from the same CL seller where you first spotted it?

Yes, and he was still driving it with all the noise the loose flexplate was making. He was lucky it hadn't come apart.