thanks tim i will look into it

rick i dont mind if you jump on it

moz. geelong victoria australia.

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This is from the listing for this flex plate. Sounds like a bargain. I need a good one. Hope you don't mind if I jump in on this.

Regards


Rick - West Australia
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Hey Moz!  Is this what you were looking for?  Might want to get it even if your old one was fixed.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NOS-Ford-flywheel-ring-gear-1959-1962-with-292-and-1961-1962-Mercury-352-390-/140844564909?pt=Vintage_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item20cafd81ad&vxp=mtr

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paul thats exactly what mine was doing & yes it sounds like a loud engine knock, mine was hard to diagnose because after a few minutes it would get warm the crack would close up & the noise would stop.

rick i agree the metal is to thick for it to be a flex plate added there's no room in there for it to flex, in the case of mine my engine was never built properly & was so stiff you could'nt turn it by hand i suspect that with the torque of the starter motor hitting it hard to get it to turn put massive amounts of pressure on the plate at the crank flange & caused the crack.

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

My 57 fordomatic also had a cracked Flex plate. (unknown till it was taken out) The trans shop had a time trying to find one. If I had still been at work & realized the delay, I'd also have welded it. Likely with small diameter Low Hy electrode.. Anyway they got a NOS one from somewhere in the East, with shipping and all it cost me well over $300.. A note on broken flex plates. While mine did not make noise, I've heard that sometimes they make a noise like an engine knock..

Paul

Yeah I spoke with Bill when I was looking for a plate and he told me you welded yours.

I am also fitting an fmx to my my 55 and the plate I have for that is cracked and I can see no reason not to weld it though I think that a tig would be safer than mig.

Funnily my plate that is cracked is in overall better shape than a non cracked one that I sourced out of Queensland . It is hard to understand why these plates are prone to cracking as I would always have assumed that the load on the plate was axial and not of a thrust nature.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
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thanks for thinking of me stuey thats the great thing about the forum.

rick i love my mainline but at $750 not that much lol, i had the guys next door to me at work dremmel the crack & slowly mig it on both sides then they linished it & you cant see where it was, it was sugessted to maybe weld a second plate on but with not much room in the bell housing in that area i went against it but i did put 2 coats of por 15 on each side which should have the same effect as a plate ive talked to bill about it & we both think it took 52 years to crack, it may last that long again by which time i wont be driving it.

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover

Moz, I recently went through the frustration of trying to find a late model flex plate to allow conversion to an fmx in my star model ute. I eventually got one by scouring all the ads in all the Oz publications. Whilst I was looking, I found one that the sellers price was that he wanted my first born grand child. It was at Johns Rod and Custom, in Victoria. His price was $750. Needless to say I left it there but if you can stand the pain he may still have it.

Regards

Rick - West Australia
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Moz

i saw a thread some time back and thought this was what you were looking for. normaly i wouldn't bother because shipping is so expensive but an old drinking buddy is spending xmas in Melbourne and new year in Adelaide and i saw an opportunity.

he doesn't know  and now i will not have to grovel.

stuey

yes stuey i was looking for one but mine is different, i have one like a conventional plate with the ring gear on it

moz. geelong victoria australia.

graduate 1980, bus, truck, car, hot rod, boat, submarine, hovercraft, hydrafoil, firetruck, mobile home, jet, helicopter, cruise ship, motorcycle, bicycle, santa's sleigh, clock, alloy bullbar, alloy fuel tank, lens, dr who's tardis, matter - anti matter warp drive buffer & y-block lover