Well guys, it's been nearly 4 months since I've under taken the rebuild. It's been a mighty ****** winter here in the pnw, with plenty of rain, and I'm working in my driveway. I was able to finally get the trans bolted up on Saturday, and got the truck started. I put about 5 quarts in before starting, let it run for maybe 3 seconds, and shut it off, refilled with a few more quarts (drive shaft and exhaust still all disconnected) ran that for maybe 10 seconds, and filled her up again, this time after starting, I ran it into reverse, and the speedo started climbing, then shifted into drive, pausing in neutral (driveshaft still disconnected) and watched the speed climb again, and shut her down in drive, waited a bit then put it in park, since I had no way of stopping the trans, I didn't want to slam the parking paul.
Fast forward to Monday, topped her off, hooked everything back up , and went for a few drives. I'm amazed that everything worked first try. Ran it just up and down the driveway (which is just barely long enough to fit three vehicles, bumper to bumper) then around the block, then around town, then across town. Got back and she was about a quart low. Topped her off again and took her on the freeway. Everything is about 99%!
The ONE issue I'm having is under medium load/torque(driving around town, anything more than about half throttle), the flaxplate seems to be rattling/rubbing on something. The starter wasn't touched, and we didn't take the flaxplate off, though we tried, in an attempt to replace the freeze plugs, but of the 4 bolts we tried to get off, only one moved. Any ideas?
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