The fluid filled torque converter acts as a heavy flywheel when bolted to the thin flex plate.
Bell housing. Contains the clutch & flywheel on a manual transmission vehicle. On an automatic it contains the torque converter.
For both manual and automatic transmission equipped vehicles, the flywheel is actually attached to the rear of the engine crankshaft, not to the transmission itself. But cars that have automatic transmissions originally can have flywheels that are not compatable with manual transmissions. That is because with an auto trans the torque converter is bolted onto the flywheel, and there is no need for a central hole and bearing or bushing in the exact center of the flywheel. On the other hand, with a manual transmissioned car there is a pressure plate bolted to the flywheel, and a clutch plate is sandwiched between the pressure plate and the flywheel. There is also a shaft from the transmission thru the bell housing, through the center of the pressure plate, attached with a toothed surface to the clutch plate, and then the extreme forward point of this shaft goes into a hole in the center of a flywheel, and is held in place by a pilot bushing or pilot bearing that has been pressed into the center hole of the flywheel. So if you take out an automatic transmission and torque converter, you might not be able to bolt in a manual transmission because there might not be a central hole in the original flywheel to hold the pilot bearing/bushing and the tip of the pilot shaft....You may need to also change the flywheel.
It is true that a vehicle with an automatic transmission can start in either park or neutral.
Yes and no. It has a fly wheel if it is equipped with a manual transmission. It has a flex plate for an automatic transmission. But, that's like the term "motor" being used to describe an internal combustion "engine". In my world, a "motor" is connected to an electrical power source. Anyhow, the flex plate (flywheel) is a connection between the engine and the transmission. Every vehicle has one.
An automatic transmission modulator is the device that decides when your vehicle should shift. It basically controls and regulates pressure for smooth operation of the automatic transmission.
The most common thing on convertibles (the vehicle) is that most of them have automatic transmission when driving. So instead of manually changing gears, it's automatic.
No, you cannot legally drive a manual transmission vehicle in the USA with an automatic license. You need a manual transmission endorsement on your license to do so.
Automatic Transmission Fluid in a vehicle.
Depending on the vehicle, a faulty VSS (Vehicle Speed Sensor) could affect the automatic transmission shift points.
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Under the vehicle where the engine meets the transmission.
Yes, it is in a manual transmission vehicle since the flywheel is also used as part of the clutch as well as providing the necessary mass to reduce the effect of the torque pulses generated when each cylinder fires. In most cases in vehicles with automatic transmissions something called a torque converter serves a similar purpose. The torque converter is a somewhat doughnut shaped device which is filled with transmission fluid and weighs just about as much or more than than would a flywheel for this vehicle if it had a manual transmission.