Torque Converter

We provide torque converters at K&L Clutch. Lots of them. Torque converters bursting with horsepower and grit. The best torque converters available anywhere in America. The kind you need—sometimes immediately—to get the work done, and the kind that won’t leave your valuable equipment investments vulnerable in the field.

In fact, as your torque converter provider, here’s our goal for you:

• Lower Maintenance Costs
• Increased Fuel Economy
• Increased Engine and Equipment Life
• Shock Protection from Load and Equipment Damage
• Smooth Operation at Optimum Efficiency Speed Ranges
• Less Downtime

It’s the kind of goal you develop with 150 years of combined Twin Disc sales and service experience. Over that time, we’ve built up a wealth of intricate expertise about what our clients and customers need, potential problems, and what works best in the clutch and torque converter field.

We take a three step approach:

1. Know the client’s needs and desires, and anticipate potential problems.
2. Stock a comprehensive catalog of the best, most reliable equipment, and develop the capacity to customize and build from scratch necessary pieces in our Dallas workshop.
3. Build a shipping and service infrastructure that can deliver such a catalog and capabilities anywhere in the world, at any time.

Just check out our comprehensive torque converter product catalog. We provide:

• Twin Disc Torque Converters
• Allison Torque Converters
• Clark Torque Converters
• Single Stage and Three Stage Torque Converters
• American Torque Converters
• Link Belt Torque Converters
• Manitowoc Torque Converters

Each of these industrial torque converters can help maximize performance via a combination of more horsepower, more torque, less engine lugging and stalling, and faster work cycles.

Only the best, and all of the best. And we have them all on hand for as soon as you need them. Better equipment. Better service. Less downtime.

Contact us for more information about our torque converter catalog and service options.

K&L Clutch Dallas Service Shop

No matter where you are in the world, our office in Hurst, Texas will seem like just a local call away.

For years, we’ve been leaders in the worldwide sales of torque converters , PTOs and service parts. But with energy demands around the world growing, and with rapidly developing economies creating new business opportunities in the most remote corners of the earth (plus the improved internet services needed to reach those corners), we’ve expanded our international business reach from our head office here in Dallas-Ft. Worth to South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Russia.

This means that nearly anywhere in the world you can get industrial power products , units, and service for:

• Cranes
• Draglines
• Crushers
• Oil Field Units
• Stationary Units

From such manufacturers as:

• Twin Disc
• Allison
• Rockford
• Clark
• Oil States

But beyond our comprehensive product catalog and service capabilities (including sales and service staff with more than 150 years combined product knowledge), we offer extensive overseas experience, and this matters as much as anything when it comes to international industrial power projects. Here’s why:

As you probably know, each country can have a dizzying web of laws, cultural factors and customs that can complicate your project. With our experience comes the ability to anticipate where unexpected problems might arise and to address them with minimal project disruption. We know what to expect, how to react, and how to work effectively within complicated cultures. Flexibility, international savvy, and a keen eye for potential problems are key.

So when you’re looking for the best service, best pricing, best on-time delivery, and most experienced personnel—both here in Texas and on the other side of the globe—we at K&L Clutch International Sales know how to get you what you need. This is why so many of our clients and customers have to come to rely on us for their international industrial power needs again and again.

Contact us for more information. We’ll be there whenever and wherever you need us.

Basically, we can repair or replace almost anything you need, and we can do it anywhere. Our goal is to help you minimize your down time after breakdowns with off the shelf exchange, replacement, or on-site field service. This is made possible with our extensive parts and units inventory.

So when we combine service, product availability and shipping capability, you get a full range of Industrial Repair Services, including:

• In-Shop Repair
  

  K&L Clutch and Transmission Industrial Product Service & Repair

• On-Site Field Service
• On-Site Trouble Shooting and Technical Support
• Full Service In-House Machine Shop
• Rebuilt Units on an Exchange or Outright Basis
• New Units on an Exchange or Outright Basis
• Extensive Inventory
• Special Applications & Engineering
• 24-Hour Field Service & Trouble Shooting
• Fully Equipped Field Service Trucks
• 24 Hour Shipping Capabilities to “Anywhere In The World” From DFW Airport (Dallas/Ft. Worth)

We can repair cranes, draglines, drilling rigs, mud pumps, rock crushers, tub grinders, dredge pump drives, stationary power units and marine units. Almost anything you need repaired.

This means torque converters and parts from top-quality companies like:

• Allison Torque Converters
• Clark Brand Torque Converters & Parts
• Manitowoc
• Oil States Prducts
• Rockford Powertrain
• Twin Disc Parts
• WPT Power Products
• Torque Fluid

Inside our Hurst, Texas shop, we maintain a complete manufacturing and production capabilities facility so we can instantly meet your custom repair needs. If no one else makes the part you need, we’ll do it. Outside, we’ll meet you anywhere in the world, any time of day or night, any day of the week. Our service trucks are fully equipped to install and service all of the units we sell, and we’re ready to get your operation back up and running as soon as possible.

Contact us for more information. We’ll have you back working again in no time.

Our line of heat exchangers from Young Transmission do every job efficiently, and provide simple solutions to complex cooling problems. The mobile oil coolers come in eight standard sizes, each of which can be piped at installation in one or two pass oil flow arrangements, and boast performance ranges of 100 GMP oil flow and heat transfer capacities from 5,000 to 350,000 BTU per hour.

The result is low cost oil cooling systems with minimum oil pressure drop and low air flow resistance.

Young Heat MOC-8 Exchangers

When mounted in front of in rear of engine cooling radiators, the MOC coolers make effective dual use of vehicle’s existing:

• Air stream
• Cooling hydraulic transmissions
• Torque converters
• Fluid power systems
• Lube oil
• Fluid couplings
• Hydrostatic drives
• Power steering

And when remotely mounted, Young MOC-8 heat exchangers can be used with any external air flow system for cooling process fluids.

Young’s been doing this for more than 75 years. So here are some of the superior construction elements that make Young’s heat transfer and exchange equipment so effective:

• Core: Basically, the core is the heat transfer surface, built from round steel tubes that can withstand multiple pressure shocks, plus a handful of aluminum allow fins and welded tubular steel manifolds. There’s also a permanent bond between fins and tubes, forged by mechanically expanding the tubes into specially formed fin collars (this provides double-walled continuous metal heat transfer surfaces).
• Turbulators: Young’s turbulators are inserted into each tube, which eliminates laminar oil flow. The result? Improved heat transfer by more than 100 percent.
• Mounting Brackets: Four steel “U” section outrigger brackets form the MOC’s mounting brackets. The small, but critical pieces come with multiple mountain holes to allow for maximum positioning ability.
• Connections: Young MOC heat exchangers feature both inlet and outlet oil connections with male dryseal threads. This creates a more efficient fluid flow, while still maintaining minimum pressure drop.
• Manifolds: The MOC’s manifolds are electric welded, heavy-gauge tubular steel manifolds that have drain-vent connections and plugs.

Contact our clutch & transmission experts for more information.

Torque converters are, of course, an automatic transmission’s answer to a manual transmission’s clutch—with one big advantageous twist (which we’ll get to below). Torque converters allow the engine to turn while a machine’s wheels and transmission gears come to a complete stop (think cars idling in a driveway).

More specifically, a hydraulic torque converter is a fluid coupling that lets an engine spin independently of a transmission.

To understand why this matters, think of a car in traffic. Keeping the car stopped at a stoplight takes just a light push on the brake, because there is only a tiny amount of torque being passed through the torque converter from the slowly turning engine or motor. But when you step on the gas, the engine roars and more torque is passed to the wheels. It’s basically a transfer of rotation power from any sort of internal combustion engine or electric motor to the driven object or load.

But here’s the twist — hydraulic torque converters can actually multiply torque when there is enough of a difference between the rotational speeds of the engine and load, basically serving the same function as a reduction gear.

Hydraulic torque converters can be broken down into three basic parts:

Impeller — The impeller (or the pump) is basically a ring of metal blades that are driven by the engine shaft, flinging fluid about in a manner similar to a washing machine, thereby imparting kinetic energy. The spinning also creates a vacuum, drawing even more fluid into the center.

Turbine — The turbine is a set of three rings of blades connected to the shaft. The fluid from the impeller enters and turns the turbine and causes the transmission to spin, powering the machine.

Stator — Located in the fluid circuit between rings of turbine blades, the stator (or reaction member) is made from two non-rotating sets of blades, contained in a stationary housing. The original fluid exits the turbine, moving in a different direction than when it came in (and in an opposite direction of the engine and pump spin). The stator keeps the fluid from hitting the pump, which would slow the engine.

Benefits:

· Longer Engine Life

· Longer Equipment Life

· More Efficient Fuel Economy

· Smoother Operation

· Better Shock Protection

· More Reliable Automatic Braking

· Faster Work Cycles

Hydraulic torque converters also have specific benefits that depend on your type of use.

For example, with slush pumps, hydraulic torque converters permit operation through a wide range of volume vs. pressure while using the maximum size liner. Crawler tractors can operate with maximum drawbar pull at all times, even in the roughest of operating conditions. Hoists and winches can hold loads in mid-air with the throttle alone, without bobbing. Shunting locomotives benefit from a good tractive effort curve. And in excavators, hydraulic torque converters deliver two to three times the amount of torque for hoist and crowd loads.

Check out our complete line of torque converters, or contact us for more information. We’ll tell you everything you need to know.

So let’s start with the basics:

All clutches—whether K&L’s mechanical clutches, pneumatic clutches, or hydraulic clutches—work essentially the same way, and provide the same larger function. They work to synchronize two rotating shafts (say a car’s transmission and engine) that are spinning at different speeds. The clutch can connect the two shafts, locking them together to spin simultaneously, or decouple the shafts to spin again at different speeds (when you’d want to stop a car without turning off the engine).

All sorts of technical variations exist. But engaging a clutch (releasing the clutch pedal in a car, for example) almost always moves power from an engine to another part of the machine (like a car’s transmission). Disengaging usually stops that power transfer without stopping the engine (thus avoiding an engine stall).

To get more specific, when the clutch is engaged in a vehicle, its clutch plate usually makes direct contact with something like a car’s flywheel. To disengage, something like a release fork is pushed by a cable or a hydraulic piston. This pushes a throw-out bearing against the middle of the diaphragm spring, which pulls the press plate back away from the clutch disc. The clutch is then released.

Clutches allow cars to change gears, chainsaws to idle, drills to spin bits, and large machines to run at optimum power.

Pneumatics

The basic feature, of course, of all pneumatic machines is that such devices are powered by clean, compressed air. Pneumatic clutches are no different.

Where mechanical clutches does everything with moving, tangible parts, pneumatic brake clutches transfer power from one part of a machine to another using compressed air or other gases. Upon clutch disengagement, an air valve is opened and an air flow is initiated through a rotary inlet through the shaft, toward the pneumatic throw-out bearing, which opens the clutch. Re-engagement bleeds the air out of the system, a set of springs release, and the clutch reattaches to the flywheel. Then you’re ready to go.

Results

Compressed air is usually clean and easy to handle. In fact, the simplicity of pneumatic clutches leads to much more accurate torque control (with generally less than 5 percent variance) compared to mechanical clutches (often around ten percent).

When combined with pneumatic brakes, the brake/clutch packages provide reduced breaking distances, and are often use in larger, heavier vehicles like buses.

Contact K&L to learn more about pneumatic clutches. We’re proud to provide service and provide quality parts for pneumatic clutches from Oil States.

Although cranes today use the very latest technology and top grade engineering, the earliest examples of their lifting principle and functionality dates back to the time of the Ancient Greeks. They were industrious and innovative and worked out that by using a lever-fulcrum system heavy loads could be lifted with relative ease.

The basics of how cranes work – a heavy load is attached to the short end of the beam. This cargo can then be elevated by relatively little force being applied to the long end of the beam on the opposite side. The ‘lift’ takes place with the assistance of the fulcrum that is situated just below the beam and is designed to provide support.

As the Ancient Greeks improved the crane apparatus more and more features were added, these included: a hand-wound winch complete with cabling that was attached to a pulley. By wrapping cables around the objects in question they were able to lift and move them from one location to another in much the same way as the cranes of today do, although modern equipment is further enhanced by the inclusion of hydraulic systems. Hence the modern equivalents are capable of lifting 1000s of tons with ease.

Boom Crane Parts

The anatomy and terminology of the crane - The boom crane parts are:

• The Boom: The boom is probably the crane’s most outstanding and identifiable feature – this is the long, telescopic or fixed arm that is used to move objects
• The Counterweights: The crane’s counterweights are near the cab’s exterior – they prevent the crane from becoming unbalanced when lifting heavy loads
• The Jib: The Jib is the familiar lattice-like structure that gives the boom the freedom to extend
• The Rotex Gear: The Rotex gearing affords the crane the ability to rotate its apparatus – better enabling it to do its job from awkward standpoints.  Hook rollers are also used in some crane applications.

At K&L Cluth we specialize in sales, service and quality parts for industrial machinery like Crane Boom, Jib, and Torque Converters.

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K & L has taken on the WPT line of  Twin Disc style power take offs as a distributor for North Texas and Oklahoma.  With WPT based in Wichita Falls, any backorders can be filled in one day and all units are competitively priced. K & L, although, will carry and extensive inventory to include complete units and supporting parts. We are ready to service you now. Please call any of our experienced sales associates and ask more about the new WPT product line.