[DML] Re: Auto Trans Converter Noise

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxxxxx>]

Did the flex-plate get damaged in the process?

Harold McElraft - 3354

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx> wrote:
> I've been chasing down a mysterious noise from my recently-re-
> installed engine in my automatic project car. All I did to the 
trans 
> was replace the torque converter seal and some general clean-up, 
new 
> gaskets, o-rings, etc. 
> 
> The problem I'm having is a hellacious noise from, apparently, 
within 
> the torque converter. It sounds a lot like a dry scraping noise, 
in 
> fact first we thought maybe oil starvation in the engine 
somewhere. 
> I've now gotten under the car while running on a lift and it's 
> definitely the converter. The other related, odd symptom is that, 
> with the engine off, trans in-gear, turning the axles (together) 
> causes what sounds like a gurgling noise in the coverter itself. 
> Obviously in the process of changing the seal the converter was 
off 
> the trans and most of the oil ran out of it. So - it seems that 
the 
> converter is full of air as well as fluid. The car does drive OK, 
it 
> just makes this very scary noise that could well be a much louder 
> version of the gurgling noise that I can get with the engine off. 
> 
> Is there something that I should be doing to bleed the converter? 
Is 
> this a symptom of some greater problem? I've been into a few non-
DMC 
> automatics and never seen anything like this. 
> 
> Dave Swingle






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