RMC List - Late PG high stall torque converter.

[MICHAEL PIPER]

I do have experience and I am happy.  I have a '66 Monza with a 140/PG.  Not my favorite engine transmission combination.

I was pretty sure I had a bad torque converter in the car, probably the original.  I suspected that bearings that should rotate smoothly were sticky/glitchy.  I bought a Clark's High Stall one and it was a major improvement from the old one.  The car would idle properly, I could pull off of the interstate and the engine would not die before the end of the ramp, I could park the car hot and not have the engine die ten times while trying to back out of a parking place and no more neutral drops to get moving once the car was out of the parking place.  The high stall torque converter is much smoother when pulling away from a stop and generally behaves much more smoothly. 
 I would add however that the one I got was toward the end of the prior rebuilder Clarks was using so I don't know how the latest rebuilder ones perform.  I think Ed Halpin may have purchased the very last one from that prior rebuilder.

I believe I read when doing research that the high stall torque converters generate more heat by to the way the function but I don't know that to be true or that it has affected the car.

Regards,

Mike


> On 05/25/2024 11:56 PM MDT andy via RMC-List <rmc-list at corvair.org> wrote:
> 
>  
> I am thinking about pulling the trigger on Clark's high stall torque 
> converter. There is some info on the internt, mostly that folks seem to 
> be pretty happy. Does anyone have firsthand experience with one?
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> Andy
> 
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