unclecameron

I realize now that I have the rebuilt motor installed that the 2 alignment sleeves that go around the tranny bolts on either side of the block and sort of align them with the mating hole were left on the old core block and didn't get installed. How badly are they needed, and will it cause the tranny/flywheel/TQ to get noisy? I have noise in that area after the rebuild that I'm looking into, wondering if that could be the source?

Bustedback

You need those dowels, check with a machine shop and see if you can get them from a core they may have sitting around.

unclecameron

kinda what I thought. I still have them on the old block, but I'll have to pull the tranny bolts halfway back out and put them in...what will happen if they're not in there?

Bustedback

The crank centerline will not line up with the torque converter centerline and will cause vibration and parts breakage.

unclecameron

well, got it all back together, found out that several things were wrong. I snapped off a torque converter bolt, so really the only way to easily get it extracted was to drop the front of the tranny down so I could access the torque converter, so basically pull the tranny out, or enough to drop it down, then I drilled and got the snapped off bolt out.

While it was out, I noticed that the aluminum plate that's sandwiched between the tranny and motor was bent a bit, and that's what was making the noise, the TQ bolts scraping across it as they went around. So then I put those sleeves back in, bolted the tranny back up, and now it runs smooth and sweet I talked to a tranny guy, and he said if the sleeves aren't there, it eventually takes out the oil pump on the tranny, and I guess since the tranny oil pressure would drop it would then take out the clutch packs by the time you figured it out, so it might buy you a tranny rebuild - yikes!

Thanks all for the help on getting this thing back running, appreciate it a ton!