Re: Torquflite tolerances

[Dave64 <lt7dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, Butch, please do.  Great info you are sharing - thanks!

Dave

--- On Mon, 1/31/11, Butch Edison <waedison@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Butch Edison <waedison@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Torquflite tolerances
> To: 1962to1965mopars@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, January 31, 2011, 10:15 PM
> 
> It's been my good fortune to have had Pat Blais (Tflite
> Patty on Ebay and a
> vendor on our forum) show my wife and I how to take a
> Torqueflite apart,
> inspect it, repair it, and reassemble it. Actually, she did
> the whole thing
> under his direction. I just watched and took some notes and
> pictures. Not
> like I'm at all qualified to do any of that BUT, I did
> learn a couple of
> things some of you might not know, at least I didn't. If
> you are interested,
> I'll post some stills and video to a website and send you a
> link. They were
> things I'd never thought of before, but that make good
> sense. Me? I just
> always figure you take one transmission out and plunk
> another one in. Good
> to go.....
> 
> The first thing is checking flex plate deviation with a
> dial indicator. I
> don't have the spec sheet in front of me, but the
> aftermarket flex plate in
> my wife's 37 Plymouth hot rod with a 340, was .080", way
> out of spec. A new
> correct flex plate should cure that. I'll check once we put
> it on the engine
> and button up the transmission.
> 
> Second thing was crankshaft to Torqueflite alignment. This
> one really
> interested me. Realizing that these are 50 (+) year old
> motors and
> transmissions that may have been gone through many times,
> there is a good
> likelihood that the two components are not aligned,
> especially if the block
> has been align bored and not done exactly right. I learned
> how to check that
> using an old bell housing. In our case, good news, the
> total misalignment
> was .006", within the .008" tolerance allowed. Had it been
> more, I would
> have gotten some offset engine dowel pins from pat to pull
> the Torqueflite
> back into spec.
> 
> So the pics I've taken are not all that great, as it's
> pretty hard to get up
> into the bell housing once you have a dial indicator rigged
> up, but if you
> are interested, I'll take the time to upload the pics
> somewhere and try to
> explain what I'm doing if it doesn't look self-evident.
> 
> //Butch/ Ferndale, WA
> 
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