[Gmecm] Re: TH 700 fluid flow

[William Lucke]

That's true when the clutch is released.
According to the diagrams I have, when the clutch is applied, the 
leakage past the piston is dumped. However, the cooler is supplied 
through an orifice via a separate output from the converter clutch apply 
valve. Once the fluid goes through the cooler it returns to lube the 
rotating parts.



Will


From: Andrew Gibson <andrewsharyn at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Gmecm] Geting rid of electronic transmission.

 > >When applied, the fluid goes to the apply side of the piston and only
 > >leakage past the piston flows back through the return line. From there
 > >the leakage is exhausted into the pan.

   Will you may want to look a little closer at your fluid diagrams. The 
return line isn't exhausted into the pan. I know some do show this but 
not all and this isn't the case. Fluid from the return line feeds the 
lube circuits for everything that moves. (Bushings, panets, etc.) This, 
besides keeping the converter full, is why there is always cooler flow. 
Dodge has for years not run the converter fill circuit in park. This has 
disaterous results to the trans hard parts if you leave it running in 
park for an extended period of time.