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[Pipeliner_86]

Ahh I see says the blind man I had no idea what it came from, I have an old galvanized cattle water trough that can hold about 350 gallons. Its plum full of idi engine parts. A little bit of everything, not sure what is all there untill I dig around in it.

 

[oldmisterbill]

Ben, the only thing I found in my parts bin was a spacer plate that bolts between the t/c and flexplate. Its a full circle part with holes for the convertor and flexplate approx 1/8" thick. Here are a couple pics. You said it should be shaped like a half moon, I couldn't find anything that matched that.
If this is what ya need, give my a shout. 734-735-0071
If not maybe I'll have somthing you need someday down the road.

I had that style on my 84 with a C6-I think you are looking for a stamped plate that would match the cast adaptor plate on the bell housing.I have never seen one either.I'm kinda of leaning toward the idea that you may not have rotated your torque convertor till it set in on the 2nd set of splines,causing the splines to jam when you tightened the engine to the transmission.You should almost be able to back the convertor out enough to rotate it behind the flex plat-not quite but almost enough.

 

[icanfixall]

As posted by several here you can't "tighten" the bell housing of the trans to the motor. They should just slip together. Then tighten them up. Yes, the torque converter can be looking like its pushed in all the way but. If you need to really tighten things to get the trans to motor gap together then something is wrong. As NJken posted, when the converter is seated properly you will have about 1/16th inch gap between the flexplate and converter. You will be able to spin the converter without it touching the plate. Hope this helps. I still can't figure out what part you seem to be wanting... Who or how did you find out you matbe missing some plate???

 

[82F100SWB]

The plate you are thinking of was only used on gassers, the diesels just have a dust cover that bolts up to the bottom of the bell housing and the bottom of the adapter and can be taken on and off with the bellhousing bolted in place.
I too would vote for the TC not having been properly seated when things went together.

 

[sootman73]

okay i wasn't sure cuz i kinda thought that there was one there like the gassers but after a couple months i couldn't remember. i know i didn't have the TC in all the way. i didn't think that i could have everything bolted tight and be able to turn the TC without hitting the plate at least with the studs... i guess we'll just see what happens when i get the thing back...

i dont know how i didn't get the thing in there all the way. when i replaced my TC last december i had no problems at all. guess i just got lucky then!

 

[Brimmstone]

Don't feel too bad about it man. I'm a transmission rebuilder by trade and have had to fight some converters into the trans as they wouldn't line up no matter what we did. It's comforting for the senior rebuilder to pull the pump apart and scratch his head why it wouldn't line up and bury itself all the way into the pump. I tend to listen to the pump area and turn the converter back and forth several times to make sure it is engaged in the pump lugs.

 

[Agnem]

Perhaps this is what happened to you.....

When I was building the Moosestang, I bolted the engine and trans together in the garage. I went to bar the engine over, and the engine was siezed (or so I thought). I tried days of spraying PB blaster into the cylinders before I unbolted the trans, and found everything turned freely. I then remembered hearing the sound of alluminum gritting (like two bricks sliding across each other) when I bolted them up and realized I messed up bad. I figured I had toasted something. I tried again, and this time it all went together and turned fine. I crossed my fingers, and now have almost 40K on the "jammed and mashed together" engine and trans. No doubt something didn't clearance for me the first time. I shudder to think what it was. Perhaps in another mile, or maybe 100,000 I'll lfind out.

 

[sassyrel]

Perhaps this is what happened to you.....

When I was building the Moosestang, I bolted the engine and trans together in the garage. I went to bar the engine over, and the engine was siezed (or so I thought). I tried days of spraying PB blaster into the cylinders before I unbolted the trans, and found everything turned freely. I then remembered hearing the sound of alluminum gritting (like two bricks sliding across each other) when I bolted them up and realized I messed up bad. I figured I had toasted something. I tried again, and this time it all went together and turned fine. I crossed my fingers, and now have almost 40K on the "jammed and mashed together" engine and trans. No doubt something didn't clearance for me the first time. I shudder to think what it was. Perhaps in another mile, or maybe 100,000 I'll lfind out.

you were being smiled upon-------

 

[icanfixall]

Mel... That happened to me some time ago. I installed and pulled the motor 5 times that day. Turned out to be the torque converter pilot. It measured size on size to the old flexplate I had. So I opened it up about 1 1/2 thousands. It fit just like it was supposed to. No bellhousing gap even before I installed any bolts. The converter turned freely too all thru the bolting process. Kinda funny how everything was "jamed tight" by the crank thrust bearing. My 36 inch breaker bar wouldn't turn the crank... I know the converter was seated properly. Otherwise that trans would have been junk...