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Check your balance. Had them come loose a few times last year and ended up taking the rotating assembly to Burtonsville Performance Machine on a hunch (was "balanced" elsewhere before) and they found it to be 140 grams out.

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You need to find the cause. Bolts ( especially if they were loctited ) should not have just come loose. I'd be looking at the convertor - and sure wouldn't use that flex plate over again.

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I tighten mine with a impact... I go through the starter
area when the starter isnt mounted yet... just a couple
of 3 hits or so... I had 1 bolt come loose when using
a wrench... never since using the impact

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I hear this so many times on this site it makes me cringe. When I was still working loc-tite salesmen would come in and tell us about new products, old products, and how to use them. Here are a few does and dont's.
1. All bolts nuts and fasteners must be clean. Recommended procedure is to clean the bolt on a wire wheel, soak and clean them in an oil free cleaner like paint thinner, and blow dry.
2. After applying loc-tite torque nuts or bolts to proper spec.
3. NEVER EVER retorque nuts and bolts at a later date as you will only break the seal that the loc-tite made. visual inspection only.
With convertor bolts sometimes it requires stacking open end wrenches (wrench on wrench. cheater lever) to get the bolts to proper torque. He recommended 271 (red) as the proper loc-tite for this use.
4. If you don't know the history of the bolts that you are going to use "get new ones" they are not that expensive.
If your convertor bolts come loose after doing the above method you have other issues going on.(alignment,vibration, ect.)
REMEMBER loc-tite will not work on greasy oil soaked bolts.
Good-luck with your repairs and I hope all goes well.

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I tighten mine with a impact... I go through the starter
area when the starter isnt mounted yet... just a couple
of 3 hits or so... I had 1 bolt come loose when using
a wrench... never since using the impact

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are you sayin you can get to all the tc bolts through the starter hole?

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Sure can.... deep impact 6 point socket right on my
CP impact... I have the flex and the conv painted
on one ear and one bolt hole so it lines up right..
I put one bole in finger tight then rotate it to
get all 4 in then hit it with the impact a couple
of short hits then turn it and so on

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This is a very good, often overlooked, point. For the chemical threadlocker to work properly, the joined parts must be clean.

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Update;

1) Converter was sent out to Turbo Action, and they went thru it. They had to repair/replace a few of the "feet" or pads that the converter bolts thread into. They also said the ring gear and snout needed some attention. Converter is back and ready to go

2) Trans is out, and at CRT getting a once over to make sure everything is ok.

3) bought a new starter, B & M flex plate, and ARP convertor bolts

4) still have to pull and change the cam plug on the back of the motor ( when the weather breaks ).

5) Once the trans is back, i should have it back together in a few hours.

Thanks for everyone's posts. ( i forgot i posted this last year, Ramcharger found my old post, lol )

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