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I was hoping for a reply in your own words ........
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Understandable.
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........ Notice what is printed in your service manual refers to 2nd STAGE ........
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Here it is, again:
OK. I read it again. This time, I did "notice" that it has not changed since the first time I read it.
Do you think I posted it, without knowing its contents?
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........ not 2nd GEAR ........
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Was anyone discussing "gears"?
This is a technical discussion. I avoided using the word, specifically, to keep semantics out of it.
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........ or 2nd SPEED ........
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In the context of this discussion, and in the context of its use in the Manual, how are the words "stage" and "speed" not interchangeable?
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........ much like a Switch-Pitch Turbo-HydraMatic three speed with variable vanes in the torque converter ........
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Much like?
How is it the same, and how is it different?
What "ratio" defines each change in pitch?
Does the "torque multiplication" provided by my 2200 converter give me a lower "ratio" than its 1600 counterpart? 2.6:1 vs 2.5:1, for instance?
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........ The first "shift" that is not felt is not a shift at all, it is a change of pitch in the multiplier vanes ........
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Which, according to pages 3-8 and 3-10 (in the same Manual) results in a ratio change from 3.32:1 (first stage) to 2.933:1 (second stage).
How is a "ratio change" not a shift?
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........ not a gear change ........
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Was anyone discussing "gear changes"?
Do we need to discuss the remaining ratio changes (as shown on pages 3-12 and 3-14) from 2.933:1 (second stage) to 1.56:1 (third stage) and the one from 1.56:1 (third stage) to 1:1 (fourth stage)?
Norm