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In Yet Another Engine Cleaning Adventure I broke some teeth off of my starter and ground up my flex plate. Now, I don't really want to take the transmission out, nor do I want to take the engine out. There are rumors that you can replace a flex plate with a thin wrench that you slip up next to the torque converter after pushing it back. I don't believe this. Even if you could manage to get a wrench up in there, getting the lip of the flex plate out and the screws back in after replacing the flex plate seems pretty much impossible to me; however, it is possible to shove the transmission back a bit. You don't even have to remove the cooling lines:
Take off the shroud over the torque converter:
Here is one of three bolts holding the torque converter to the flex plate:
All of the bolts are out:
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