Friday, August 22, 2008

 

Messing around with the fifty ford

I have been driving the ford up and down my street. It has a C4 transmission. I have a toque converter like the one in this link

Note the stall rating of 3000 rpm. This is good if you have to jamn on the brakes
while going down the hi-way. You won't kill the engine. But I having a hard time getting use to having raise the rpm to get it to start moving from standing still


From Wikipedia

Stall. The prime mover is applying power to the pump but the turbine cannot rotate. For example, in an automobile, this stage of operation would occur when the driver has placed the transmission in gear but is preventing the vehicle from moving by continuing to apply the brakes. At stall, the torque converter can produce maximum torque multiplication if sufficient input power is applied (the resulting multiplication is called the stall ratio). The stall phase actually lasts for a brief period when the load (e.g., vehicle) initially starts to move, as there will be a very large difference between pump and turbine speed.


I hope that me and Henry learn to get alone and find that this is going to be
a fun relationship.

I still have to buy him a tag

posted by Johnnie 2:45 PM