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Did the flex-plate get damaged in the process?
Harold McElraft - 3354
--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx> wrote:
> I've been chasing down a mysterious noise from my recently-re-
> installed engine in my automatic project car. All I did to the
trans
> was replace the torque converter seal and some general clean-up,
new
> gaskets, o-rings, etc.
>
> The problem I'm having is a hellacious noise from, apparently,
within
> the torque converter. It sounds a lot like a dry scraping noise,
in
> fact first we thought maybe oil starvation in the engine
somewhere.
> I've now gotten under the car while running on a lift and it's
> definitely the converter. The other related, odd symptom is that,
> with the engine off, trans in-gear, turning the axles (together)
> causes what sounds like a gurgling noise in the coverter itself.
> Obviously in the process of changing the seal the converter was
off
> the trans and most of the oil ran out of it. So - it seems that
the
> converter is full of air as well as fluid. The car does drive OK,
it
> just makes this very scary noise that could well be a much louder
> version of the gurgling noise that I can get with the engine off.
>
> Is there something that I should be doing to bleed the converter?
Is
> this a symptom of some greater problem? I've been into a few non-
DMC
> automatics and never seen anything like this.
>
> Dave Swingle
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