Heavy Duty, RV & Towing Use Overview When weight is added ford explorer accessories to a vehicle the shortcoming’s of a stock setup becomes evident. typically the torque converters "slip" and require increased engine rpm and power to move the vehicle. our company’s heavy-duty torque explorer converters provide a low cost cure by increasing and "gain accessories peak performance" including improving fuel economy and reliability. our company offers many products to improve the performance of oem automatics like heavy-duty clutch kits; deep finned transmission pans, special valve bodies, reprogramming kits and transmission fluid coolers. street/strip performance overview car enthusiasts rarely recognize true gains in street/ strip performance.

an automatic transmission requires a coupling between the engine’s crankshaft and the transmission’s input shaft. and while in a ford few special applications, like in oval track and marine setups, a direct coupler is used, the majority of explorer all automatic transmission installations utilize a torque converter. in addition to functioning as a fluid coupling between the engine and transmission, a converter provides an additional benefit through accessories multiplying the torque input, much like a gear set. there are a number of parts in a torque converter, three of which give ford it the basic operating characteristics… the pump, the turbine, and the stator. the pump has rows of curved vanes arranged inside a bowl-shaped casing. the turbine is the part that actually is responsible for turning the transmission-input shaft. like two electric fans facing each other, one with the power on, and one with the power off working in unison causing the internal rotation. when a car is just beginning to move from a dead stop the pump will be rotating much faster than the turbine. therefore the oil will be working against the turbine blades with a great deal of force. in the process of passing through the stator, the direction of the flow of the atf is reversed. if this fluid were simply allowed to re-enter the pump, it would have a tendency to work against explorer the accessories pump’s direction of rotation. instead the fluid is forced though the stator section of the converter which uses the special shape to reverse the direction of flow.

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