Striker289

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Coming home i was bombing backroads. Opened it up on a straight away and when it slammed 3rd i heard grinding and clunking and i let out. pulled over and the inspection cover is gone! i limped it home clunking and grinding. got home shut it off looked in and saw nothing floating around. Started it back up to move it out of the way and it grinds and clunks then sounds normal. put it in reverse roll down the hill then threw it in drive. hit the gas revs like its in neutral! it worked until i turned it off wth. had to push it into the side yard with my truck. I have no freakin clue what it is now. Everything it replaced and beefier then stock. fluid is clean and smells normal.

im running:
Performabuilt stage 2
Vigilante 3800
b&m cooler
tci flex plate

any ideas what broke now.

performabuilt

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When you say "inspection cover is gone " you mean your rear end inspection cover is gone? or converter cover? Didnt you have a TCI converter to fail back in april ? Lockup clutch came apart or something ?
Let me know if I can be of any help.

02 BLK WS6

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What kind of line pressures?

Striker289

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the small round cover on the bell is gone. Was there last week when i changed the oil. Yes i did have a TCI converter lose lockup which we believe was the lockup clutch piston. The tranny ran fine with the Vigilate i threw in. Stong as hell even. ran a 13.3 blowing thew tires off. Line pressure, dunno. Didnt mess with it. Only thing that could have changed it was my tune from diablo.

performabuilt

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Well when you make a determination get with me , We have provisions for people both in and out of warranty , I am not sure of your status because I don't know your last name to look it up but in either case we are here for you.

Striker289

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well i think im good. the converter bolts fell out... THis pisses me off beucase they were tightened to spec. Anyone know bolt size and pitch? The bolts i had where supplied by TCI for my flex plate, my arps heads were too tall for the flex plate.

performabuilt

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Well good you found it and there was no more damage I have seen converter bolts come out and some serious damage be done. PUMP-FRONT SEAL-BELL HOUSING-FLEX PLATE.
Use a little blue locktite on them this time

Striker289

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will do. Thats what i get for rushing. Any idea on what the specs on those bolts are? I have nothing to compare them too now.

FLT

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http://www.ls1howto.com/index.php?category=1

44ftlbs is what was posted here. However I have seen different opinions on this subject. To be honest I have never used a torque wrench in this area. How are going to get a torque wrench in there? I always made sure they were good and tight!

performabuilt

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unfortunately I do not know the sizes of the tci bolts as I think the are different than standard and I agree on how the hell would you get a toque wrench in there

SpaZMaN

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Did you use loctite when you put it in?

ncd1966

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i had my vig. 3200 bolts fall out also. but the local tranny shop installed the convertor

and didnt put loctite the first time. but I got the shop to put some ARPs and everything is good now

plaf713

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tci uses a finer thread bolt dont they?

Striker289

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Im using loctite this time. I have a PI converter not a TCI anymore....

FLT

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Take a look at this thread for converter installations. It might help you out if you were not already aware of it. Vince https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthrea...738&highlight=

rumblebox

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I usually stack up an *** load of extensions and go over the K member. Lol

Striker289

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Ugh I still need to put the tranny and clean up the holes. the openings are a tad messed up from smacking the flex plate. I found my ARP bolts for the converter But to use them i had to remove some metal from the heads because last time they didnt clear the block becuase of the thicker plate. Im going to loctite the flexplate bolts too while i have the tranny out to be safe. this is be the 10 millionth time i have had to put a tranny in this car for one reason or another lol im sick of it.

waterbug1999

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Do you know how the holes in the flexplate look? Sometimes the get oval shaped and not round like they are suppose to be.

Also, had the same thing happen on a buddys TA with the ARP bolts tapping due to a little to tall... We said **** it and just reused the stockers. Its too damn hard to grind down with a dremmel.. lol