[DML] Re: Auto Trans Converter Noise

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If it did, I have no idea how. I joined it together on the floor, and 
the converter spun free after joining it. So I doubt I broke 
anything. I've heard a car with a broken flexplate and it's not that 
kind of noise.

I'm going to start tearing into things in the next day or so. 
Luckily, everything that I need to check becomes more visible as I 
remove things.

Dave Swingle

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 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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