Car dieing/torque convertor update

[Roger Heflin]

On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, CSH-HQ wrote:

>  
> >The tranny fluid was burnt, there was not clutch stuff in the fluid,
> 
> It's microscopic
>
The people who built the convertor are going to disassemble it, so
they will be able to tell me how it failed.
 
> >the probem is still either the clutch is acting weird or the stall
> >speed has changed on the convertor,  I have having the convertor
> >removed and sent to the place that made it to have it checked and
> >fixed.  I am not sure if I burnt the fluid racing or in the traffic
> >jam going home (it was about 100, and the car was moving at less than
> >5 mph, and the jam lasted close to an hour).
> 
> If burnt the discs have probably been glazed overheated.  Did you add a 
> tranny cooler?.

I am going to have one added, I still cannot explain why the clutch
would still be grabbing good when it engages, and be dragging enough
at idle to kill/load the engine heavily.   It also looks like it got
gradually worse, would the TCC failing cause something to get worse?
The other option is did the stall on the covertor change (fins
straightened out?).


> >
> >And I was locking the convertor at 72mph in 2nd gear before the 2-3
> >shift, and then unlocking it at the bottom of 3rd, if the clutch is
> >going that is probably the cause and I am going to have them update
> >the convertor to be the 3 or 5 cluttch version, if the clutch was not
> >the problem I don't know if I am going to have the multiple clutches
> >put in.
> 
> Multipul clutchs in TCC or 3-4th gear?.
> Bruce

Multiple in the TCC.

			Roger