S-10 Transmission question.

[tully]

OK I just bought a 2000 S-10 ext cab for $850, guy said the engine was blown
got it home charged the battery and it started right up. put it in any gear (auto) and it does nothing. but I hear a loud vibration for the area where engine tranny met. Any Ideas, I think I know but checking before I get a new tranny

[75 Squire]

Might be a bad toque convertor.

[tully]

Well upon giving a better check of it this morning, fiuld is not burned nice red color, smelled ok too, when I started it it's more like the flywheel could be broken? would a truck start with a bad flywheel?

update, popped the insp plate and with the truck in park can turn converter freely.

[ November 17, 2007, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: tully ]

[pdw72]

Flywheels broken, my old ranger sounded like it had a rod knock just before the center of the flywheel came free from the rest at 60mph, uneasy feeling at that speed when all power disappears and the engine revs.

[5.0 Chero]

tully is the motor turning over with the converter? Park will not stop the verter from turning.

[Tim70ranchero]

the bolts fall out of the converter? or could they break out of the flywheel?

[75 Squire]

When I had a auto in my Chero I did have a issue with the torque convertor bolts getting loose and backing into the block plate. Funny how that sounds like rod knock.