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After being studied some about automatic gearboxes, I haven't really understood why is put a torque converter just at the gearbox entrance shaft.
Surely as any gearbox, it needs some type of clutch. The torque converter can play the same role as a clutch when is functioning as fluid flywheel. But is the fact of reducing the r.p.m what I haven't understood yet. A common clutch doesn't function so (except some slipping between disks that reduces the r.p.m.)
Surely as any gearbox, it needs some type of clutch. The torque converter can play the same role as a clutch when is functioning as fluid flywheel. But is the fact of reducing the r.p.m what I haven't understood yet. A common clutch doesn't function so (except some slipping between disks that reduces the r.p.m.)