• AlotOfReading@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    A torque converter is part of the whole transmission system even if it’s a separate housing. When you buy a new transmission, it comes with a torque converter.

    Torque converters also create the majority of heat in automatic transmissions and are why automatic transmissions get coolers in the first place. How many manuals have you seen with transmission coolers?

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        8 months ago

        Stop and go city traffic isn’t all that sustained, because of the stop part.

        None of my cars so far have had any issues towing ~2 tons, I’m not sure why 2.5 would be that much worse.

        Of course, they’ve each had 400 newton-meters of torque out of their dinky little diesel engines.