• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Neutral to one is a gear change and connecting gear one firmly to the motor is going to stall it when you’re accelerating from standstill. With a petrol engine just the torque needed to get going is going to stall it that’s why you slip the clutch with a manual, a trailer will also stall diesels.

    With a torque converter in between you’ll also have to let it slip as it’s serving the function of a clutch. Trying to slip the lock of the converter will kill it pretty much instantly, it’s not build for that so you have to have it unlocked.

    I was interpreting “constant speed” as “zero speed difference between motor and drive train” which was probably a bit of a brain fart. You need that slippage to not stall the motor.