Pics of the inside of a torque converter

[snoranger]

This isnt from a RBV, but I just had to post it.

I pulled a trans on one of the forklifts at work the other day. Pulled the trans apart to rebuild and sent the converter out to be rebuilt. I got a call and they said it was non-rebuildable. (This was a somewhat working trans, it drove into the shop. It only slipped with a 12K+ load on it.) I had a new one sent along with the old one (to show the customer).

What you are about to see is NOT what a torque converter should look like.

 

[mp3deviant721]

Wow. What happened to it?

 

[DRanger024]

Yikes! I'd say that thing's been toast for a while haha! It almost looks like a fiberizer ring from a paper machine after about 6 months of service. Them things come back into the shop to be refurbished and they're always trashed.

 

[adsm08]

Wow. What happened to it?

Kaboom.

 

[snoranger]

Wow. What happened to it?

Kaboom.

Pretty much!

I think a bearing cage let go and the rollers got loose inside. Its been making noise for a week or so. We couldnt put this one down until its twin was back up and running. They need to have one of them running 24/7.

 

[Sunk]

Damn, that's impressive.

 

[doorgunner]

and it was STILL working up to 12K !!!!!!!!!!

 

[RICO9]

Looks like it's converted too much torque!

 

[BeaterMan]

nice. susprised it still moved. thats one to get hung up on the "wall of fame"

 

[racsan]

i used to work at a shop that among other things made honda (car) torque converters, id seen the insides of many new ones, but thats the first trashed one ive ever seen. id hang that on the wall. its amazing sometimes how some things will keep working when they are nearly destroyed.

 

[adsm08]

its amazing sometimes how some things will keep working when they are nearly destroyed.

You said it.

We replaced a transmission on a Fusion not too long ago. This woman managed to grenade the whole thing. The rear planetary ring gear was split in 3 pieces, the direct clutch and center planetary set were fused together, and I have to take the center support out of the case with a slide hammer and a hook. It should just pop out when pulled on by hand. We could barely push the car into the shop the trans was that messed up, but she somehow managed to drive it there.

 

[doorgunner]

You said it.

We replaced a transmission on a Fusion not too long ago. This woman managed to grenade the whole thing. The rear planetary ring gear was split in 3 pieces, the direct clutch and center planetary set were fused together, and I have to take the center support out of the case with a slide hammer and a hook. It should just pop out when pulled on by hand. We could barely push the car into the shop the trans was that messed up, but she somehow managed to drive it there.

"It smells funny and it's making a dinging noise"....(no, not the woman, adsm_)

 

[Will]

We could barely push the car into the shop the trans was that messed up, but she somehow managed to drive it there.

She was protected from reality by her perfect ignorance.

 

[adsm08]

She was protected from reality by her perfect ignorance.

And with this woman, that is very very true.

 

[noahkenny]

My wife had a windstar that ford put three converters in it over a two month period, and I put an updated valve body in it and it never did shift right. Ford said to replace the transmission but I just got rid of it. Think it was an 01, cant remember. It was the last year of the windstar before they went to the freestar. Cant remember what tranny that was but I do remember reading that they were junk. I do see some of those car type converters in some of the smaller heavy equipment but most of ours are bolted together and are rebuildable. Cant say I ever seen one that looked that bad. I have seen one with the weld on lugs for the flexplate bolts ripped off though in a cat backhoe.