Good evening Guys!
Sorry I dropped in the middle of this I will try to get things caught up and started again. The reason I have been away is my dear sweet Mother, 92 years old began to have very serious health problems. She had an 8 day hospital stay during which they could not help her. She continued to get worse andwe brought her home with Hospice care. She has now reached the Home Shore and is now in the care of our Lord where she will never again suffer or feel pain like she did in the last 2 1/2 weeks here on earth. Also there are not sad goodbyes in that place where she is now. I long to see her in her youth again as she was when I was a child. Only you Guys that have lost a previous Mother can know how I feel.
Now back to the 1155 story. I have finally gotten the all the parts back from the machine shop. The heads are fully assembled and torqued down and I have the valve covers sitting on top to keep any dust or dirt out of the engine. I have not fastened them down as the book says I need to check the rotators on the valves to make sure they are actually rotating when I first cranks it.
I have been waiting and trying to find the ''Support Washer'' (Case part #D 32028) which goes between the torque converter and the flexplate. I have not been able to locate one form any source I have tried.
Dale Weiss (tractorstuff) was able to get the print for the part from Case for me. I have gotten a lot of parts from Dale and he has been great to deal with. I sent the plans/print to a CNC shop to have the part made but the shop says the copy of the plans I have are unclear one thickness of the part. However just today they called to say the made the part in two different thicknesses as best they copy determine from the copy.
Hopefully I can figure out which thickness is correct. When I disassembled it what was used on it the last time in this place is what looks just like the 3 layers of the flexplate disks only smaller. Each one of the 3 disks are about the same thickness as the flexplates as well. Those disks are pictured earlier in this post alone with the cracked flexplates which were well used.
If any of you Guys have any insight on what this support washer is supposed to look like I would welcome any input on it. In the parts book I have it looks to have some thickness to it (just guessing from the drawing possible 1/4 inch thick but that is only a guess for the drawing which could be totally misleading.
Below are a few more pics of Sweetheart while she was getting her new heads on straight
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PS.
No my wife did not find the collection of her tops that made such good grease rags as one of you Guys mentioned in your comments and was wondering if that could be the cause of my absences.
However if she does I could drop off the page again until I heal up enough to type again! (If I'm lucky!)