On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:11:45 +0100, alan.b.pearce said:
> > 2: Since probably the early 1990's, there have been torque converter
> > clutches.
> 
> Oh, they go back a lot further than that. They were very well
> established when my father got the manual for his 1958 Wolseley 6/90,
> which described the Borg Warner automatic gearbox and torque converter
> that was available for that model. They would have been used since
> automatic gearboxes became available on UK manufactured vehicles.

I don't think you are both talking about the same thing. A torque
converter clutch is a friction clutch inside the torque converter that
locks the input and output together in order to defeat the torque
converter and get a direct drive.

Cheerful regards,

Bob

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