Big Blue24
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You need to open up the center bore of the welded insert. The torque converter center hub has a machined shoulder that will not allow both flex plates to ride the hub. Typically the insert center is opened up before it's welded to the original flex plate.
And as stated, you don't need to weld with you use a 47-48 re-rh double flex plates with the outer ring gear removed.
And as stated, you don't need to weld with you use a 47-48 re-rh double flex plates with the outer ring gear removed.
![Transmission526008.jpg](http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr260/DieselBlue24/47re%20Transmission/Transmission526008.jpg)
![Transmission526007.jpg](http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr260/DieselBlue24/47re%20Transmission/Transmission526007.jpg)
![Transmission526004.jpg](http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr260/DieselBlue24/47re%20Transmission/Transmission526004.jpg)
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I wanted to go ahead and throw one last pic on here, my son is on a little tighter budget than myself. So, when we read on here about the flexplates cracking, we hunted up a billet flexplate at $450. Instead of buying the billet, we cut down an old plate from an A518 we had laying around and welded it to the other complete flexplate. Were not sure it will work, but, sometimes you just gotta try???
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