Cbarnes Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 on the plus side. you may not need to remove the four torque converter nuts while under the truck. Yes sir, wish I had a shop and a lift and was about 20 years younger. I know how to perform the work, just can’t do it anymore laying in the dirt. This 110 degree heat isn’t helping things any. Quickest I can get it into a shop to be repaired is June 24th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat in tn Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Yes sir, wish I had a shop and a lift and was about 20 years younger. I know how to perform the work, just can’t do it anymore laying in the dirt. This 110 degree heat isn’t helping things any. Quickest I can get it into a shop to be repaired is June 24th. 110? where are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cbarnes Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 110? where are you? 35 miles east and south of Abilene, Texas. Close to and old ghost town called Admiral, Texas. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwis2ZTTva74AhVGnWoFHcXCAdkQFnoECAQQAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.texasescapes.com%2FTexasTowns%2FAdmiral-Texas.htm&usg=AOvVaw1msV3Do4GnMOeaGA1kII59 It was 112 Sunday! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat in tn Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 35 miles east and south of Abilene, Texas. Close to and old ghost town called Admiral, Texas. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwis2ZTTva74AhVGnWoFHcXCAdkQFnoECAQQAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.texasescapes.com%2FTexasTowns%2FAdmiral-Texas.htm&usg=AOvVaw1msV3Do4GnMOeaGA1kII59 It was 112 Sunday! population 0. it don't get much smaller than that:nabble_laughing-25-x-25_orig: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cbarnes Posted June 28, 2022 Author Share Posted June 28, 2022 population 0. it don't get much smaller than thathttp://www.garysgaragemahal.com/uploads/6/5/8/7/65879365/laughing-25-x-25_orig.gif Well, got Bubba back just a little bit ago. Here is a picture of the flexplate. They didn’t find anything else wrong. Glad to have him back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Lewis Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Well, got Bubba back just a little bit ago. Here is a picture of the flexplate. They didn’t find anything else wrong. Glad to have him back. Wow! That's is total failure. Hope there was no other damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 Well, got Bubba back just a little bit ago. Here is a picture of the flexplate. They didn’t find anything else wrong. Glad to have him back. I have seen a couple of those, not on Fords, one on an Oldsmobile Diesel we owned and one on a 3.0L Plymouth Grand Voyager. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mat in tn Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 I have seen a couple of those, not on Fords, one on an Oldsmobile Diesel we owned and one on a 3.0L Plymouth Grand Voyager. well you dont much more certain than that! glad its back and hopefully you are driving it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rembrant Posted June 28, 2022 Share Posted June 28, 2022 I have seen a couple of those, not on Fords, one on an Oldsmobile Diesel we owned and one on a 3.0L Plymouth Grand Voyager. I've had it happen on small block Chevs. Never on a Ford. When it did happen, I caught it before it completely broke out. It was cracked and flexing, causing vibration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
85lebaront2 Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 I have seen a couple of those, not on Fords, one on an Oldsmobile Diesel we owned and one on a 3.0L Plymouth Grand Voyager. I've had it happen on small block Chevs. Never on a Ford. When it did happen, I caught it before it completely broke out. It was cracked and flexing, causing vibration. I did see a Ford that was breaking flex plates, an Explorer 4.0L that a shop had put an aftermarket one in. The OEM one had a reinforcement like some other applications, I think the 302 in our 1970 1/2 Falcon had one. The aftermarket one, it may have been Dorman, had the same design, except the reinforcement was spot welded to the flex plate. The shop told the woman who owned it that there was something wrong with her truck and they weren't going to replace any more for her. When I pulled the flex plate out, I found it was fractured across two of the three weld boundaries. I ordered a new Ford one and it came with a reinforcement, but not welded. I went to a friend's transmission shop and had him order me an aftermarket replacement. Into the laboratory it went along with the last failed one. Weld areas were found to be quite hard and brittle and a microscopic examination confirmed some stress cracking in the weld boundaries as it came out of the box. She never had the Ford one fail, and my transmission shop friend decided he would never use an aftermarket one. This was a definite case of the OEM part being superior to the "improved" replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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