The 5.9L Cummins diesel engine is best known for its time when it powered Dodge trucks beginning in 1989, and it's an engine that certainly helped propel the Ram into being one of the top pickup truck ...

Optimization of vehicle drivetrain performance has been an important endeavor for decades. So too has the quest for increased automotive engine fuel efficiency. Engine torque monitoring aids in both ...

Welcome to the dark world of torque converters. When it comes to automatic-equipped street machines and drag-race cars, the torque converter is a welded-up magic box that few enthusiasts know much ...

A little while ago I had one of those immensely annoying – and unwinnable – arguments in an online forum with a guy I’d never met. You’d think the touchy topic was the wisdom of wearing a face mask (I ...

Engineers working at robotic companies, auto makers, automatic equipment manufacturers and in many other industries all commonly use torque overload protection devices, slip clutches or torque ...

Torque converters appear to be a bunch of mysterious whirlwind motion inside a spinning shell that transmits an engine's power to the transmission and rear wheels. Although they seem complex, torque ...