Max-59OldsRocket

Hey there!

I've got a '59 Oldsmobile Rocket Ninety Eight and I love it! That Olds got imported to Germany back in 2015 and I got it in September 2021. To me, it's the most beautiful car in the world, but there is something that worries me very much! The flexplate and torque converter whobble really bad! I don't know what the cause is, but I'm very sure that I'll have to disconnect the transmission from the engine and find the problem.

I've made a video and I uploaded it here and on YouTube, just in case the video might not work here:
What do you think about that? Should I worry about it or is that normal?

Greetings from Oranienburg, Germany! :-)

oldcutlass

If you’re not getting any strange noises and starter grinding I would not worry about it.

bccan

I’m chasing an inconsistent and noisy starter in my El Camino that isn’t due to tooth clearance, just measured it this morning and it has flex plate/ring gear runout that spans .050”. Waaay worse than yours. I wouldn’t worry at all about what you have there, even if I wasn’t diagnosing what I have, my opinion would be to reinstall cover and ignore it, IMO, that’s not even approaching severe, I’d consider it pretty normal.

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Rallye469

Looks perfectly fine to me.
Not reason to worry.

gs72

My dad used to call something like that, picking the pepper out of the fly ****. It looks normal to me. I agree with the other post. If you can’t feel it and it is starting normally. Don’t worry about it.

Vintage Chief

You're sitting at idle under no load. When it spins up under load any movement you currently witness at idle under no load will be gone. You're fine.

OLDSter Ralph

If you have a 1959 Oldsmobile, you have a "Dual coupling transmission". Its a bit different than newer GM transmissions. Yours looks to be fine.
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