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Well starting first thing in the morning I'm jumping in and pulling my transmission to replace a cracked flex plate. I just had my tranny rebuilt due to the notorious overdrive band breaking . While he had it opened up he showed me where my clutches had overheated drastically from driving it with the OD off for so long. I should have replaced the flex plate while I had it down , but stupid me didn't. Now that I know what I'm doing and actually have airtools and a transmission Jack I'm thinking it might take me about 3 hours for the whole job. I'm going to go ahead and replace the torque converter again just to make sure that it's not part of my issue too cause I was told that I could have a broken fin inside the TC as well. It's under warranty so no money out of pocket there... Anyone have any ideas what else I should replace while it's down? After hours of searching the net I was able to determine my flex plate is cracked right where it bolts on to the crank. I've recently started getting a tapping/knocking sound from around the bell housing area along with a metallic chirp sound after the truck warms up. I think this truck has been a horse because I've put her through hell using it as a responder vehicle with the ambulance service. She has 208,000 miles on her and the engine is still running strong!

ToughFX4

Good luck!