by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 04/07/2017 at 12:52

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(Picture of Hydramatic cutaway from here )

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"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/07/2017 at 13:32, STARS: 0

I would love to play around with a cutaway like that, and actually see everything in motion. Some 3D visualizations are better than others, but it’d be neat to have a real hands-on demonstration that would let you manipulate the application of every clutch. I don’t know how you’d clamp the clutch-packs together in a cutaway, though.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/07/2017 at 13:35, STARS: 1

Yep, I posted this knowing it was #UramboTauroBait. Notice a couple aspects of how primitive it is, like how it appears to have at least three planetaries(?) for relatively few speeds.

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/07/2017 at 13:45, STARS: 0

Oh God, I’m the poster boy for automatics now, huh? LOL #heathen

I had to look it up, since I’m not familiar with Hydramatics, but I guess there’s four forward gears in there. I only see two bands, and two clutch-packs, but from what I’m reading, there are also a couple of sprag clutches in there to round it out.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/07/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 1

I don’t know about being an automatics poster boy so much as a *tearing down* automatics poster boy. That offsets the unholiness of an auto in action with the forbidden mystery and cracking of the seventh seal of taking one apart.

"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
04/07/2017 at 13:56, STARS: 0

That Chrysler was only my second automatic! haha

I really wish that I had taken pics of my journey through a 4R70W for you guys. Now that was a proper RWD unit, from a Thunderbird. It was a neat experience.