Sm318 Transmission Plugs and Transfer case plugs

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Tommy, so these things that look like welded on nuts (cross cut in the center) are bolt heads instead? Or is my flywheel in backwards?

[tommyduncan]

Originally Posted by FetchMeAPepsi

Tommy, so these things that look like welded on nuts (cross cut in the center) are bolt heads instead? Or is my flywheel in backwards?

That's them!

Here are some not very good pics of mine in the mud. (It never rains here, except like crazy for the last month ...off and on).

Engine stand is in the way but that is what it bolts to


Another picture for perspective




Dirty skungy bell housing... corrosion protection!


Another... the pic isn't upside down, the bell housing is!

About this time my dogs started barking, thinking I was the bellhousing bandit! Don't wanna wake up my sleeping beauty on a Sunday morning... Shhhh!

[FetchMeAPepsi]

I dunno Tommy. Mine have a hole where the bolt should be solid in the pic. See where it's cross cut? I think that's a nut and not a bolt head. I'm worried they're wrong-side out.

I took more pics of the innards today. Hopefully they'll narrow the problem down.

[BarryGMC]

Does. The input shaft move in and out ? In the first picture the clutch gear appears more forward also the inner race looks like it has some scoring on the front. Spray it down with some carb cleaner and put more light on it and post a pic. Also clean the inside of the bearing retainer and post a pic of the back.

[BarryGMC]

Those are the 6 flywheel bolts. They are not nuts.

[tommyduncan]

[FetchMeAPepsi]

That's the craziest camouflaged bolts I've ever heard of!

Sorry for being hard-headed. it's the Scot in me. I'll get them suckers off Kids were a handful today so I'll get more pics once the kids are gone tomorrow.

[raycow]

If you are going to check the input shaft bearing for endplay, re-install the bearing retainer first. If you don't, you can pull the shaft out far enough to lose the needle bearings inside it, and you really don't want to have to re-install those.

Ray

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Thanks ray. I cant get it to move in any direction (up down side to side) except only a very tiny amount in and out, even that might be imagination it's so small

Here are a couple of pics of the race again. They still don't show the shiny surface well. it's smooth as a baby's butt inside. there are no scuffs, scratches, or anything on the outside either besides the texturing on the base where the screws go.

also theres black spots where I oversprayed with ospho. i'll get that polished off when I can work on it again. it comes off with a fingernail.

[raycow]

This last part you are depicting is the bearing retainer. The "races" are the grooved inner and outer rings in the ball bearing that the ***** run against.

Interesting - the censorship software allows one to say "ball", but not the plural.

Ray