I found my oil pressure problem. The shaft was not in the oil pump socket , but along side of it. My new problem . I have my 302 back in my 53 f100 & have C4 transmission bolted up to the bell housing. I am bolting the flywheel to the flex plate, as i tighten the bolts the balancing weight on the flywheel hits the engine block. I have had the engine & transmission out of the truck twice before & everything bolted up just find. I am doing something wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

How can You bolt the flywheel to the flex plate. The flex plate is the flywheel (I Believe) if it has the ring gear attached to it. Are you meaning, bolting flex plate to the torque converter?? Does the flex plate have holes (windows) the the balance weight can go into by rotating the converter to another set of bolt holes so the balance weight goes into one of the windows?? Maybe my comments are all wrong and I'm not understanding your description/ problem?? Flex plate being installed backwards??

 

Is it possible that you are trying to install the flexplate on the crankshaft backwards?

 

I am sending these photos so there is better understanding of what I am talking about. I guess I don't know what a flex plate is. I am bolting the torque convertor to the flywheel. Has I tighten the bolts the weight on the flywheel hits the block. I checked the torque convertor with a straight edge & it is behind the bell housing of the transmission by about 1/8 of an inch. I hope someone knows why this happening. I had engine & transmission all bolted up before & was driving the truck without any issues.

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How about this, did one on your crankshaft or flex plate fall off and you didn't notice

https://www.holley.com/products/drivetrain/flexplates/flexplate_spacers/parts/RM-943?UTM_SOURCE=BING&UTM_MEDIUM=CPC&HSA_ACC=7848552874&HSA_CAM=1739795001&HSA_GRP=1150089750280060&HSA_AD=&HSA_SRC=O&HSA_TGT=PLA-4575480208842656&HSA_KW=&HSA_MT=E&HSA_NET=ADWORDS&HSA_VER=3&MSCLKID=F90612BED2EA137F5D94700B93852C26&UTM_SOURCE=BING&UTM_MEDIUM=CPC&UTM_CAMPAIGN=MICROSOFT SHOPPING - QUICK TIME - NON-BRAND&UTM_TERM=4575480208842656&UTM_CONTENT=FLEXPLATES - FLEXPLATE SPACERS

Apparently they are available for a reason.

 

looks to me like that weight became unwelded from the flex plate ,as it looks high on the one end, in both photo 1 and 2 also give those grade 8 bolts your using as flex plate bolts a heave HOO, use the proper flex plate bolts only, as they are specialty bolts . and don't get used with lock washers

flex plates are for auto trannies, fly wheels are for stick shifts there is a very big difference between both

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captchas, good eye, looks just as you described it!

 

the shadow on the steel is a giveaway . looks slightly up from the spot welds where one can see the bend and paint marks from hitting the block seen in photo 2
and with 50 plus years of wrenching i've seen it before ,more so on externally balanced motors such as fords