July 1, 2010

Time to Change an Old Habit

Many of the early torque converter rebuilders learned the importance of paying attention to details the hard way. Machining the clutch surface on the early rear-wheel-drive […]
July 1, 2010

Internal Clearance

Sometimes misunderstood, and often overlooked, but very important! “Internal clearance” is the space between the impeller and the turbine in an assembled torque converter. Hydraulically, it […]
July 1, 2010

More details

Producing a quality rebuilt torque converter is a major accomplishment. You have to correctly perform many rebuild procedures to end up with a quality finished product. […]
July 1, 2010

Revisiting the captive clutch

Joe Rivera proved that the ZF5HP19/24 captive clutch is rebuildable (see “Rebuilding the Unrebuildable,” Transmission Digest December 2005). Many converter shops are now attempting to build […]
July 1, 2010

Mystery PO741 Code

A 2003 F350 4X4 was brought to a transmission shop in Eugene, Oregon. The customer complaint was an intermittent P0741 code. The code did not seem […]
June 24, 2010

It’s all in the details

If you want to rebuild a torque converter and do a good job, you need to pay attention to many details. Unfortunately, in today’s business environment […]