I encountered a similar problem a while back. It seems the nose of the
torque converter wasn't centered so it didn't want to allow me to tighten
the torque converter bolts all the way. I just removed the bolts and
rotated the torque converter 180 until it went all the way forward and the
lugs of the converter were resting against the flywheel. You'll want to be
careful that you don't warp the flywheel by tightening the bolts unevenly.
Good ole 13mm bolts.
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom <tomntam@earthlink.net>
To: Oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Saturday, April 14, 2001 8:53 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] torque converter problem
>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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