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Originally Posted by fiddy6
Is there any way to inspect these flywheel/flex plate rivets without pulling the transmission?
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I don't see how that will help. The little rectangular shaped inspection hole at the bottom of the bellhousing will allow you to look, but you can't tell if the rivets are loose and there's not enough room to grab the flywheel and tug it back and forth to see if there is movement.
All I can say is, decades ago, my '55 had a noise at idle that you could hear loudest by lowering your ear down by the back of the front tire. I pulled out the trans and discovered the rivets on one side of the flexplate loosened up. But that was in the '70's and I had a flexplate from a local junkyard the next day. I still have the bad one in my garage. I think the only way to be sure is to tear the trans out and get the flexplate off.