so i got my leazy but out of the house im pretty sure now its not the crank cause i unbolted the flywheel from the torque and started the old girl and no more noise so its either the flywheel or the torque what do you guys think would the flywheel still make noise anyway im gona seperete the tranny after supper and take the flywheel out and ill see from there

 

My money's on the flex-plate being cracked around the crankshaft hole.

 

roger that. Upgrade to the 94+ flexplate and all will be well

 

ok now tranny is separeted

im starting the engine no knocking anymore so now im not sure is it the crank its just not knocking cause there is no load

i did not unbolt the flywheel yet i cant see any cracks but maybe there hiding under that middle plate like one of you guys pointed out but woudnt the flyweel keep knocking even without torque bolted on

or is my problem further like torque or tranny

 

The flexplate won't knock without a load on it (ie, bolted to the tq converter) Pull that sucker out of there and you'll likely find the source of your noise. A tourque converter won't knock, that I'm aware of. They jsut make heat and leak when the seal goes bad...

 

ill take the flywheel of tomorrow if they are cracks will they be visible

 

and my dam oil dipstick wont come out of the pan is there a trick to get them out usualy you just pull and out they go

 

I know this is a potAto potato thing, but just to be specific, for those who may not be familiar...a vehicle with a manual tranny has a flywheel, while a vehicle with an automatic tranny has a flexplate. They are two very different animals, to be sure. No disrespect meant to any one persons way of refering to a certain part.

 

Having done this twice, both times the little inspection cover was covered with fine metal flakes. How did yours look?

 

The crack(s) in the flex-plate will typically present as hair-line cracks running around the perimeter of the bolt pattern connecting the plate to the crankshaft hub. Look closely for the dark rusty dust streaks where it comes from the cracks

The knocking sound we of the broken flex-plate crowd comes from the actual, normal slight flexing of the plate making the loose edges of the crack grate across one another. It gets transmitted to really weird placed making one think it's something else. If left unadressed, the plate brakes, . . . . . and you're lucky if it just chews up the block/bell-housing adapter plate.

 

i wont take any chances ill pull it right out

a local shop told me it could be the tc too ill check the flexplate first

that dam oil dipstick tube wont come out
if i have to chamge tc i got my other one but im not sure if its good cause with my other tranny when i started the truck in the morning i put it in gear and i had to wait 3or 4 sec for it to go in gear im not sure if it was the other tranny or the tc itself

 

I guess that's why it's called a flex plate huh. I too will bet on a cracked flex plate.

 

ok now i got the flexplate out no visible cracks so now what no one here tests torques im thinking of puttting flexplate from my junked truck it ran fine before i took tranny from it torque is from my junk truck but i got a truck from the tranny i exchanged so im gona switch the torques and flexplate

any thing else you guys think it could be

noise did sound like a pocket full of change in a dryer

but if i chake tc no noise im thinking of going to a local metal shop and hoking tc to a tower make it spin see what happens

y cant i get normal problems you no the kind where the broken parts fall on the ground

 

[QUOTE=DODGE 92;1217402]ok now i got the flexplate out no visible cracks so now what no one here tests torques im thinking of puttting flexplate from my junked truck it ran fine before i took tranny from it torque is from my junk truck but i got a tc from the tranny i exchanged so im gona switch the torques and flexplates

any thing else you guys think it could be

noise did sound like a pocket full of change in a dryer

but if i chake tc no noise im thinking of going to a local metal shop and hoking tc to a tower make it spin see what happens

y cant i get normal problems you no the kind where the broken parts fall on the ground that way your sure what you need to do

 

whats torque on the felxplate bolts so i no how to set my elbow click