Torque Converter bolt holes not lining up

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   Any one else had this problem. Had my engine out to be rebuilt and my converter stall upped at the same time . When I got the converter back I put my flex plate on it and lined up the holes then sprayed painted through the hole in the flex plate to mark it. Installed engine and then installed converter making sure the paint lined up with the hole.  Put the first two bolts in no problem but the next two were 1/4 of hole out, no matter what I did it would not line up. So I figured that I Screwed up and got the converter in the wrong spot .  I rotated the converter around twice trying to get the holes to line up, no joy .Went back to the paint mark three times and the same problem.  I had put 12 hours into this by now and was thinking I would have to pull trans to figure it out . I tried one last time with the paint mark in the hole and all four bolts just went in like they were supposed to. Wonder just what was going on there  only thing I did differently was not tighten the bolts up when I put them in  but they were not more than finger tight all the other times. Makes you wonder some times.

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xfactor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Nut Joined: Sep/09/2012 Location: Port McNeill BC Status: Offline Points: 478	Post Options Post Reply Quote xfactor Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Torque Converter bolt holes not lining up Posted: Nov/01/2015 at 9:57pm
	Any one else had this problem. Had my engine out to be rebuilt and my converter stall upped at the same time . When I got the converter back I put my flex plate on it and lined up the holes then sprayed painted through the hole in the flex plate to mark it. Installed engine and then installed converter making sure the paint lined up with the hole. Put the first two bolts in no problem but the next two were 1/4 of hole out, no matter what I did it would not line up. So I figured that I Screwed up and got the converter in the wrong spot . I rotated the converter around twice trying to get the holes to line up, no joy .Went back to the paint mark three times and the same problem. I had put 12 hours into this by now and was thinking I would have to pull trans to figure it out . I tried one last time with the paint mark in the hole and all four bolts just went in like they were supposed to. Wonder just what was going on there only thing I did differently was not tighten the bolts up when I put them in but they were not more than finger tight all the other times. Makes you wonder some times.
	Ray Harper 69 AMX 401

purple72Gremlin Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Addicted Charter Member Joined: Jul/01/2007 Location: Illinois Status: Offline Points: 16611	Post Options Post Reply Quote purple72Gremlin Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Nov/01/2015 at 10:47pm
	A lot of times don't tighten them. very close so its tight....been there many times.

tom67 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Supporter of TheAMCForum Joined: Mar/19/2015 Location: Indianapolis Status: Offline Points: 416	Post Options Post Reply Quote tom67 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Nov/02/2015 at 6:08am
	We just did this on mine. Had similar issue. Our problem ended up being the engine on a bit of an angle to the trans.
	Tom 1967 Ambassador DPL AMO #10582

72AMX Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Nut Joined: Aug/07/2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 476	Post Options Post Reply Quote 72AMX Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Nov/02/2015 at 11:23am
	Make sure that the torque convertor drain plug lines up with the flexplate inspection hole, if it does then I'd suggest starting each of the bolts partially and then progressively continue that until all are completely tight.

tsanchez Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Addicted Joined: Jul/09/2007 Location: Arizona Status: Offline Points: 4303	Post Options Post Reply Quote tsanchez Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Nov/02/2015 at 12:13pm
	Is this a 727 or 400, if 400 make sure it has the pilot spacer or the converter wont be centered


xfactor Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List AMC Nut Joined: Sep/09/2012 Location: Port McNeill BC Status: Offline Points: 478	Post Options Post Reply Quote xfactor Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Nov/02/2015 at 9:51pm
	Its a 401 and TF and I did get them in finally . All most made a drinker out of me.
	Ray Harper 69 AMX 401