This exploded view of a torque converter calls out the important converter components. On the far right is the impeller (A) that uses input power from the engine to impart fluid motion to the turbine ...

An automatic transmission is kinda like a parent of a three-year-old child; it does everything for the driver. Want to reverse? Just move the shift lever to R. Want to drive? Put the lever in D, and ...

Welcome to the dark world of torque converters. When it comes to automatic-equipped street machines and drag-race cars, the torque converter is a welded-up magic box that few enthusiasts know much ...

If your engine was directly affixed to a transmission, it would die every time you came to a stop—and that would be a problem. The solution to this issue is a torque converter, a fluid coupling device ...

IT is indicative of the interest being taken by engineers in the comparatively recent hydraulic method of transmitting torque and to the importance attached to its development that three papers on ...

According to Meineke, most automobiles use a form of automatic transmission called a hydraulic planetary automatic transmission, which is also used in a scaled-up version in some industrial and ...

For straight line guys, spending hundreds of dollars on something that doesn't give you any extra horsepower doesn't exactly seem like a good deal. Even a federal bean counter could figure that one ...