Thread: Symptoms of broken flex plate?

Did a quick search and yielded two pages of no answers. Recently noticed at idle either in park or in neutral I hear ticking sound from the bottom of the car.when I put it in gear the ticking stops.my guts is the flex plate cracked? I know I would know for certain if I look under the car and inspect it myself but don't have the time currently to do so.

YouTube - gtp - broken flex plate

Sounds like thats what you got. There also have been instances of where the bolts backed out on these cars, Might want to see about thats aswell

i listened to the sound in the vid. it doesnt sound as bad as that. its more of a ticking sound. i'll try and get a vid but its been raining here since yesterday and that sucks

heres what the ticking sound is like:
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fst yours doesnt sounds as bad but it sounds similar. maybe its a small crack. are you sure your flexplate bolts are tight?

Originally Posted by Swiggles

fst yours doesnt sounds as bad but it sounds similar. maybe its a small crack. are you sure your flexplate bolts are tight?

if by the bolts you meant the torque converter to flywheel(3 of them), i checked each one and they're tight. trannyman used locktite on them fwiw. now if you meant the bolts connecting the flywheel to the motor, then no and i imagine that'll be hard to see from under the car without disconnecting the TC from the flywheel. i peeked under the car and i could not see or make out any cracks on the areas where they tend to crack. perhaps its more upward near the 6-8 bolts where it connects to the motor.

Tap it, You can hear a crack in them

i was planning on doing that but i spent nearly half an hour closely inspecting the 3 spokes that tend to crack and actually found a feint hairline crack that is close to the center bolts that mate to the motor. so, looks like i'll need another flexplate and once i do, get a shop to do the swap

upside is im planning on getting a meziere billet flexplate

Sweet, glad you got it figured out!