And DO NOT put a tranny shop convertor in it. The truck will be junk. A hughes is like $300 and will be PERFECT for what you do. If nothing else skimp on the rest and get the Hughes convertor.

They finally got the truck all taken apart on Saturday and come to find out it is just the flexplate so Im hopefully gonna get one tomorrow and get the tranny back in and rollin

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The 2nd gen flexplates will work on a 1989 with a 727 right?

i still wander how a flexplate can break yet a starter can turn the broken flexplate to crank the truck...... can we cat pictures of how it broke?

I'm glad that's all there was to it. :tu:

Me too :tu:

Jason I want a pic of the flex plate... I wonder how the hell it started...

And yes you WANT a 2nd gen flex plate... Its a bolt up item.

Why not cough up for teh convertor while its out?

Cuz I had to spend $330 on a rental car and all the labor for the guy working on the truck plus Im takin a $500 CFI class and flying trying to finish that up. Ive spent way to much money already this month. I think I've exceeded my monthly income by about $3000.

Ill try to get pictures of it, hopefully he didnt throw it away. I was in a major hurry tryin to get to Cummins and to the shop and still make it to class on time this morning. It broke right around the outside of the holes for the torque converter, maybe 1/2 inch or so, and its clean, looks like you cut it with a plasma torch. :c:

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Oh and BTW I got the 2nd gen flex plate, $117 from Cummins.

The part number for future reference if anybody needs it is: 3975464

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Here is requested pictures

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Holy crap!

and the truck would crank up?