<VV> "water wheel" transmission

[FrankDuVal]

Or he was looking through the cooling port (passenger's side) and saw 
the ring gear going round and round....


Frank DuVal


On 9/18/2019 2:51 PM, Hugo Miller via VirtualVairs wrote:
> I would assume he means a fluid flywheel, or torque converter, which a 
> development of the fluid flywheel.The fluid flywheel is one of the 
> cleverest inventions ever in my book - it's worth studying how they 
> work - utterly ingenious.
>
>
> On 2019-09-18 19:25, Harry Yarnell (Verizon) via VirtualVairs wrote:
>> I don't get it.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: VirtualVairs [mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On 
>> Behalf Of Ed
>> Thompson via VirtualVairs
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 2:02 PM
>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>> Subject: <VV> "water wheel" transmission
>>
>> In a reader letter in the November, 2019 issue of Hemmings Classic 
>> Car, the
>> writer refers to the transmission in his wife's Corvair Monza, back in
>> 1967, by this description.  I don't recall hearing of a "water wheel"
>> transmission reference previously, but I guess I get it.
>>
>> Ed Thompson
>> Greenfield (Milwaukee) WI
>> '66 Monza sedan, 110 / "water wheel" glide
>