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I had one of those but sent it back, there wasn't enough room to use it. And no I did not get the washers in. I might try again tomorrow but I want to see how others have done it. I can't find anything on YouTube or online yet, everybody just says to add the washers, nothing about how impossible it is. Maybe it's the TCI flexplate that's making it extra hard.
There's no shops around here that do work like this, just stock stuff or if there is one, they want a fortune and even then they wouldn't even check things like the gap, plus they'd have my truck for a week. My cam alone one shop wanted $1600 and pull the blower and heads, and that wasn't even doing the oil pump and timing set. Plus he said he wouldn't even know when he could get to it. I'd be waiting forever for this.
The washer has to go between the flexplate and converter. Then it has to magically stay (using grease) while I insert a bolt through from the front, through the flexplate , then through the washer, into the converter. All I can see is the face of the flexplate in the hole where the starter was. The washer has to go behind that and I and barely get a finger back there. The hole is about 1 1/2" from the edge of the flexplate also. And the gap between the two is less than 3/16" where I'm trying to slide the washer into, and it's on top of a pad on the flexplate so I can't just hold it flat and slide it over. I have to try to get it up on a pad and use the edge of my finger to slide it into position, at which point I lose touch of the edge of the washer completely. Then I use a screwdriver through the bolt hole to hopefully find the center of the washer but I can't see it or even feel it anymore and of course gravity is against me. I tried using an inspection mirror to double check but I can't tell if it's in the right place. It's total ********.
I do, but only because i bought it 20+ yrs ago when i was in high school and swapping motors after i blew them up ........and wasnt sure if red had enough room...
The access to the flexplate on these is ridiculous. There should be a removable part of the bellhousing. You have to have the flexplate in exactly the right position to be able to insert a bolt, there's barely enough room. Then to try and slide a washer behind you have to move the flexplate (which is attached to the crank of course) an inch or so then try to slide the washer behind and then put something in through the hole to hold the washer while you move the flexplate back to where you can put in the bolt. I never even got a single one in even though at one point I thought I had 2 in but then one fell out while I was working on the third so obviously it wasn't in, then since I wasn't sure which one fell out I was going to remove the other one but it also fell out so it wasn't in either. I mean, if 1 falls out you have to retrieve all 3 since you can't see which one is in and which one is not.
What oval hole? I have no oval hole or rectangular hole in the converter like some instructions say. Or in the flexplate. As you can see, there's actually 3 holes on each pad of the converter for some reason, only one of each lines up with the flexplate holes.
