Click! Click! Click!

[uglyjeepling]

So I have this clicking from the flex plate converter bolts hitting the bellhousing sheetmetal cover. :( I tightened them all and still have a click. :( :( It only happens when I give it gas and when it shifts. The flex plat looks ok...from what I can see with the access cover removed. So the burning question is; Is it the flex plate or thrust bearing? And how much am I in for replacing either? This is very frusterating, I can't go mudding with this problemo. Please help!

[Stuka]

I would hceckk to make sure the tranny bolts are tight ann the flexpalte is tight. it would have to move or the tranny/engine would have to move for that to happen only on acceleration.

[gsmikie]

th 400 ???? unbolt the converter from the flex plate and tap the flex plate with a wrench and see if it rings or goes thud if it rings (like a bell) the flex plate is good if it goes thud you need a flex plate they crack around the crank hub and will walk and click until they break all the way

[uglyjeepling]

it is the th 400. i will try both suggestions. someone also said the crank can walk if trust brearing on the main was worn, is that true. Darn, I hate working down there is is a greasy mess. The last person left the leaks and filled the engine periodically. Now it is all over the tranny. Just venting.

[Doug B.]

The last person left the leaks and filled the engine periodically. Now it is all over the tranny. That is a FSJ trademark.....it might even be copyrighted. :D :D :D

[timmirvin]

Originally posted by uglyjeepling:
someone also said the crank can walk if trust brearing on the main was worn, is that true.I have two "future projects/parts Wags" that this has happened to. One has very noticeable front to back slop/play. The other is quite a bit less, but both make the clicking you are describing. I didn't have the luxury of this forum a couple years ago when I bought them. Just about pulled my hair figuring out what the problem was......

It was finally my wise old/dear old father that said "Hey, hand me a pry bar" that figured it out. He put the bar behind the harmonic balancer and the crank would move back and forth... :eek:

Have not torn into either engine yet. But will use one of them later this Summer for the Hunting Mobile project that I am fixin' to begin.

[ April 10, 2003, 12:04 AM: Message edited by: timmirvin ]