Torque converter

[warren182]

Can anyone tell me how a torque converter works??

[OMS]

Try here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque_c

[Trooper2]

The best analogy is to take to fans and place them close and facing each other, if you turn one on the air comming off it's blades will drive the blades of the other fan. The torque converter uses a hydrualic fluid instead of air so it is even more efficient.


http://auto.howstuffworks.com/torque-

[chuntington101]

what set the stall factor of torque convertors???

also can they ever totaly "lock"??????

thanks (a dumb) chris.

[GreenV8S]

chuntington101 said:

can they ever totaly "lock"??????

The fluid coupling can't totally lock, but these days it's common to have an external clutch that positively locks the two halves together to eliminate slip.

[eliot]

GreenV8S said:

chuntington101 said:

can they ever totaly "lock"??????

The fluid coupling can't totally lock, but these days it's common to have an external clutch that positively locks the two halves together to eliminate slip.

"These days" goes back quite far actually. My 700r4 (Chevy box), first out around 1984 had a lockup converter and the last of the TH350's (its predecessor) had lockup converters on them also. The clutch is inside the torque converter, to activate it on mine they reverse the flow of fluid through it and it locks.

Edited by eliot on Saturday 24th February 21:32