Flex Plate Stop Bracket

[IRON MAN]

Thought I share this with the e-body community. I found myself in a dilemma this weekend when installing a flex plate for a automatic. At 30 ft lbs tq the flex plate would turn. The torque required is 100-110 ft lbs tq. I have the flex plate tool Summit sells but I only have two arms. Tried but to no avail. I am doing it solo. So I made this flex plate stop tool. It was easy to make,  very easy to use without much effort, and only requires one person to torque the flex plate bolts to 105 ft lb. Easy peezee.

[1 Wild R/T]

Looks suspiciously like a GM, maybe a Pontiac? Actually no.. Maybe an AMC?... Mopar doesn't have the ring gear on the flex plate, it's on the torque convertor....  I've found many ways to lock the engine so I could torque bolts...

[IRON MAN]

Brad, It is a 1968 AMX 390 flex plate. Eng and trans are fresh rebuilds. Tomorrow, the tq convertor and trans gets bolted on and  the eng/trans assembly raised into the engine bay of my 68 AMX that is being restored to it's former glory.

[anlauto]

At first I though he was bolting on the torque convertor to the flex plate first then installing the transmission....I was going to wait for the explanation of how that was going to work..

Glad you pointed out he wasn't working on a Mopar...

[1 Wild R/T]

Brad, It is a 1968 AMX 390 flex plate. Eng and trans are fresh rebuilds. Tomorrow, the tq convertor and trans gets bolted on and  the eng/trans assembly raised into the engine bay of my 68 AMX that is being restored to it's former glory.

Misidentified again, second time this week... Oh well guess nobody loves me...   And, yup, I figured out it was for your AMX... Very Cool!