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When you are ordering torque converter parts from your supplier, it is important to be able to communicate your wants and needs to your salesperson. Frustrations […]

Impeller Vanes The movement of a vehicle relies on the torque converter’s ability to transfer the torque of the engine to the transmission (the beginning of […]

Have you ever found yourself chasing a “phantom” TCC driveability problem in a GM vehicle that uses the Allison 1000/2000/2400 series of transmissions? If you have, […]

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 […]

Try to imagine the difficult job tech line technicians have. They are asked to decipher bits and pieces of information that may or may not be […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

At a recent TASC™ Force meeting, one of the members expressed concern about an increase in the number of worn-out bores in TCC pistons that he […]