I recently bought a torque converter to go with my TH350 that is going in my
552nd TF. The converter that came off of the transmission was bolted on with
three nuts and bolts. The new converter had bolts that screwed through the
flywheel into the converter, which I was told made no difference. In the box
with the converter were three bolts along with a note that said the bolts
were metric and standard bolts should not be used. It could be a pain in the
neck down the road if a bolt should get lost or something, but not really a
problem now.
However I got the converter on the tranny and the tranny up and bolted in,
complete with cross member. As I am bolting the converter to the flywheel,
with bolts provided, I noticed the 2nd bolt I screwed in started real good
and then got tight. I spun it on around and screwed in the third bolt and it
went in fine. Two of the bolts tightened down tight but that one bolt would
not tighten down all the way. I am able to see the threads and they look
kinda buggered up. Its not stripped, but when it is tight as I can get it,
the bolt is still not tight against the flywheel. As a matter of fact if I
tighten the other bolts one at a time, without the other bolts in the
converter, I can still wiggle the converter on the flywheel.
I don't really know where I am going with this, other than to say, is there
any harm, if I were to had some washers so the bolts would tighten up?
Should I take the converter back, to which they will think I used the wrong
bolt, although they may not say that. Has anyone ever encountered a problem
like this? This is probably the one in a million.
Anyway thanks for the input,
Tom
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