ATX Flywheel Replacement
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Eric VerValin
PiMPSKiLLET
Next to impossible? It would have to at least come apart.. (motor/trans) to be able to get to the torque converter bolts, and then to the bolts holding the flywheel on. A lotta times the ones holding the flywheel like to come off with an impact.. and you can't do that with a transmission in the way. 
jmpSHO
SHO Member
The whole trans has to come out.
Eric VerValin
PiMPSKiLLET
Pull the starter, and get someone to turn the motor over for you, and you can watch the teeth go by and see if you have some bad teeth in there.
Shoaz
Studly dood
Nitpick, but ATXs don't have flywheels.
If you want to change the flex plate, that's a different story.
If you want to change the flex plate, that's a different story.
If you don't want to remove the transmission, just pull the engine.
jmpSHO
SHO Member
One or the other has to come out to replace the flywheel, uhm, I mean flex plate.
Off Road SHO
Moderator
And for everyone's edification in this thread, the ring gear CAN be removed from a flywheel but not so with an automatic's flexplate.
Tom
raff18
frosty95mtx
i had a 92atx 3.8 taurus with a bad tooth ran it like that for 4 years only killed one starter
so id say leave it till it loses more than one tooth
so id say leave it till it loses more than one tooth
Eric VerValin
PiMPSKiLLET
Off Road SHO
Moderator
Well, I guess you could if you were a glutton for punishment, but a bad tooth on one side of the gear is still going to be bad on the other. If he has enough know-how to grind welds and re-weld correctly, he's smart enough to go get another flexplate.
Tom
Off Road SHO
Moderator
Not hardly.
Tom
Tom
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