flywheel backwards?

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  1. 70maverick173

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    My weights from my flywheel are rubbing on the meal plate that seperates the engine/transamission. Is it possible that i put it on backwards. Are the weight supposed to face the tranny or the block. On put it on so that the weights are facing the block.
     
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    is it a stick or anautomatic. mine are all auto and the weights on the flexplate are on the side closest to the engine.:)
     
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    it is an automatic. The wieght though seem to be rubbing on that big metal plate.
     
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    Is there any chance that the "plate" has been bent one time, some one tride to bend it back and bolt it on any way ?
     
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    what blown76mav said ,same thing happened to me
     
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    I went out to the garage and did a quick check with a crank and flexplate. Because of the way the holes are spaced unevenly, I wasn't able to line them up at all when I put the flexplate on the crank backwards. I think it will only properly bolt up one way.
     
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    did you get it figued out?

    I had a thought, maybe.......mine has a little spacer that goes between the flexplate and the block(flexplate bolts go through it), could you have possibly left that out when you put it all back together?

    **Mines not a street car, I run a mid-plate and they made the spacer out of the same metal(thickness) as the mid-plate to keep everything in relation with each other do to the bigger "plate" between the motor and tranny. but I thought I would try and help.
     
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    your torque converter may not be all the way on, sometimes it feels like it is but if you spin it a little it will line up and go in all the way, mine did just like yours, I had to loosen the tranny an spin the t.c. and converter went all the way in and everthing worked the way it was supposed to
     

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