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Automotive Transmissions Old and New.

March 12th, 2010

Jetaway transmissions, Transmissions for sale

[/caption] Getting power from the engine to the drive wheels of an automobile has provided an endless challenge for rear-wheel-drive, front-wheel-drive, 4-wheel-drive, AWD, front-engine, rear-engine, and mid-engine cars, longitudinal, transverse, vertical, slant, and flat engines, plus an amazing array of hardware in between. George Selden’s notorious 1877 patent [...]

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Smart Cars Offering a Transmission Upgrade.

March 11th, 2010

Smart car transmissions.

[/caption] Smart began in 1993 as a joint venture between Daimler-Benz and Swiss watchmaker Swatch, creating a company known as Micro Compact Car. (It would later move to Germany and be known simply as Smart.) Its “city cars” would feature the build quality and [...]

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Feds Probe Dodge Durango Transmissions

March 5th, 2010

Thank you for Buying Dodge Transmissions

[/caption] Federal safety regulators they have opened an investigation into 450,000 Dodge Durango SUVs transmissions and have reopened an investigation into 217,000 Chrysler cars with transmission problems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA) opened the Durango investigation after receiving four complaints [...]

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Ford’s new dual-clutch PowerShift automatic gearbox.

March 4th, 2010

Ford Transmissions for Sale

[/caption] Ford Motor Company announced last month it will introduce the advanced dual-clutch PowerShift six-speed transmissions in North America in 2010 for the small-car segment. Ford Transmissions new PowerShift unit will deliver the fuel efficiency of a manual gearbox with the convenience and ease [...]

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Ford Transmissions new Torque Shift Super Duty.

March 3rd, 2010

Ford 6R140 Torqueshift Automatic Transmissions

[/caption] If you haven’t heard, Ford has two new V-8 engines coming, a 6.7L diesel and a 6.2L gas engine, and they both need heavy-duty Ford transmissions backing them up if the F-Series Super Duty’s are going perform like they should. But why build two transmissions when you [...]

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BMW transmissions 8-speed automatic transmissions

February 26th, 2010

Not to be out done In the struggle to get to the top, BMWs new transmission is one of the details to be the subject of one of the most intense competitive subjects in luxury car-making industry. When Mercedes-Benz came out with a 7-speed automatic gearbox, Lexus, together with Audi, BMW and Hyundai, promptly reacted [...]

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“Ask a Mechanic” about your Transmission.

December 6th, 2009

More and more people are forced to save money due to economic problems, I have noticed that there are a greater number of people who want to do some of their automotive repairs at home. The most popular DIY procedure driveway mechanics perform is to change the transmissions fluid and filter. Some enterprising and fearless [...]

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Transmission Tips: Check your transmission fluid hot.

October 18th, 2009

Let me go over a basic transmission procedure, one as simple as checking the fluid in your transmission. This simple advise may prevent you from having to buy a rebuilt transmission prematurely. The automatic transmission fluid has to be checked when the transmission is hot. It takes about 15 minutes to heat up an automatic transmission [...]

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Transmission Components: What makes a good torque converter?

September 24th, 2009

Dependability concerns in choosing a torque converter – Regardless of the reason for buying a torque converter, an educated buyer should look for several features in the product one is considering purchasing in order to assure that both the transmission and torque converter have nice long lives. Furnace brazed fins - greatly improves the strength characteristics [...]

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Transmission Components: Torque Coverters and Stall Speed