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Wards Farm Tractors also had Fluid Drive, which was handy for some things, not so handy in others.

Chrysler got it right in 1953 with Power-flyte and finally Touque-Flyte both excellent automatic transmissions.

Mustangs are my favourite cars but these silly transmission shifters need to go. In australia a c4 shifts normally. This is total nonsense

My Dad had a 1951 Chrysler Windsor with a 6 cylinder engine and the more automatic Fluid Drive with a selector on top of the steering column marked: R Low N and High range. Starting this car you must make sure the selector is in Neutral or the car will accidentally move in gear when you're starting the car. When starting this car make sure you have the clutch pedal down to the floor and hold accelerator pedal down to the floor to prevent engine flooding.

Mopar old school for life 👍🏻🇦🇺✌️.

I had a 1932 Plymouth with what was called free Wheeling. The clutch was used when at a stop

I've been usually slowing and at a stop in 3rd gear. At a stop with clutch applied while in 3rd. Please send info on fluid gear shop! I know of a man in Olympia Washington who will rebuild old Carter or Ball n Ball , this guy has all the linkages and other detailed item for a complete rebuild to factory standards

The Bruno Drive is a modern interpretation of the concept. It allows the adaptation of a torque convertor to a manual transmission in drag racing applications

I had a 48 dodge with that tranny. Took a bit to get used to letting my foot off the clutch while in gear at stop lights.

What gear should you be doing donuts in safely?

That’s some “Easter Egg”!!! Lots of owners don’t know it -they only know park, reverse and ‘drive’

How does that work on a hill or an incline?

I MUCH PREFER the "fluid drive" to ANY "modern electronic system"! These WORKED FOREVER! The "electronic wonders" NEVER WORK FOR VERY LONG!

A great video !! Folks read your owners manual. I sometimes see RUclips videos about a latest new car "hack" and if only the person had looked in or scary read the new cars owners manual about that part of the car they would have know it came with or did certain things. Note growing up my Mom's 1965 Mustang convertible had this transmission. I can guarantee she had no idea about how that shifted. I forgive her of course raising two boys on her own reading the owners manual was not on a priority list. Thank you for not adding music to this video. I love hearing what ever engine was in the car. I miss my old 289.

Very cool!! My first car was a '47 Dodge 4 dr sedan. Same drive line!!

Road to school in a fifty four Dodge that had this system in it, and it worked fine

This is the original Fluid Drive introduced about 1940. As this shows Dodge stayed with this in their post war cars. Dodge eventually also offer this with the 4 speed semi automatic gearbox , a combination they called Gyromatic Fluid Drive in early 50s cars . In order to get better acceleration they introduced a variable vane torque converter in place of the fluid coupling when the V8 engines came into use. They called this Fluid Torque Drive.

In Australia we Called the gear Shift A Three On The Tree 5:20

It must be a satisfying driving experience

Love those old Dodges. When I was a young boy (16) our neighbor had a four door Dodge Cornet. A beautiful little car. Best I can remember, you could push in the clutch and start off in high gear or maybe low but... Once you got the car to going you let off on the gas pedal, you would hear a clicking sound and it would shift into high. When that happened you never had to use the clutch again. It was supper fun to drive. Wish I had that old car. She was a beauty, a beautiful lady. 😊

In 1970 I inherited my grandpa's 1941 Chrysler Windsor that I had ridden in all my life, and drove it for years. This video does not show starting up in low gear, lifting the foot from the accelerator so as to prompt the transmission to automatically shift to the higher gear, the whole idea of Fluid Drive! For quick starts, I would start up in 1st, lift my foot going to 2nd, then use the clutch to shift into high (4th?). If I started out in 1st and immediately clutch-shifted to the other range, it would go to 3rd, allowing me to lift-pedal and auto-shift to 4th. More relaxed, I would sometimes stop in high gear, and let the car start up from 3rd gear, lifting my foot to auto-shift to 4th. I might have been wrong, the two lever positions might have represented 1st-2nd and 2nd-3rd (never could tell if the lower-high gear was the same or different from the higher-low gear). But the final method shown in the video, where the car starts from stop in 3rd gear and continues with no further shifting doesn't look right. I recall always going through at least 2 gears, possibly 3, on the way to cruising. Was the shifting method changed from '41 to '46?

😂I have the same steering wheel, and my center cap pops off all the time. I used to drive my car with both feet like that, because I ran a forklift at work. Bad habit for driving a car that way though. 👍

A very interesting video. Sixty-six years later my ‘12 Chrysler 200 Touring convertible has the 62TE transaxle with the autostick feature which allows some manual shifting as well if desired.

Anybody know what the engine's RPM's are at doing 55 miles per hour with this transmission?

It's crazy (to me) to think that the Model T from 1909 through 1927 had a planetary gear set that used bands to apply it's two forward speeds, or reverse. Why then did we move away from planetary sets for the better part of 30 years only to re-establish them in "modern" automatic transmissions? In the interim years, nobody thought about coming up with a column-shifted, planetary drive? With a fluid coupler, there would be no need for a clutch. The shifter on the column would apply either via linkage, or even hydraulics to apply whichever band or clutch the driver required similar to the Model T. There would be no gear clashing since everything would remain in constant mesh. Eventually, they would have devised a way to shift the unit automatically, thereby giving birth to the modern "automatic" transmission.

This was helpful - I just bought a 52 with fluid drive - good info!

The Mopar "fluid drive" of "the era" was a slow, MAYBE cumbersome transmission that WORKED FOREVER! Repair shops would have GONE BANKRUPT waiting for this to fail! They were simple, NOT fast, BUT THESE ALWAYS WORKED!

Ok so why is it that when im on 2nd, when I bring it to L it down shifts again, are my settings off down below in the linkage area? when I start the drive on L, then for second I put it on green, then on 3rd on the white dot it works fine

1942 M5 US light tank ... Twin Caddy V8s w/ Hydra-Matics

I was telling a guy about this transmission and this video.. He said that he had heard that cars with this transmission do not have a "Park" function, like other cars, and that you REALLY have to remember to put your parking brake on because the tranmssion has no park to help hold the car. Is that correct?

Had a 52 dodge pu worked great in town I'd use 2nd

That was fascinating!

Does this work in reverse also as I would like to use the engine to slow down. I think I tried it but it seem to go to a neutral and with a rev it went onto 1st. I have a Australian 69 falcon 302w cruise o matic column shift. I haven’t tried this way of manual change up yet but will when I drive it next. Hopefully works on mine

I would bet my paycheck those Miles are actual. Bear in mind people and cars back then simply did not drive 100,000 miles.

Where are you located? I need you to look at my 65 t-bird with cruiseomatic.

Do you know what fluid to use in the fluid drive I have a 1942 d22 and I have never found anyone with that knowledge

Under normal conditions Dodge recommended you only use second and third gear starting in second and only having to make one shift. First gear in a fluid drive was only recommended for steep hills towing and conditions of mud and gravel.

This is awesome. I had no idea about the manual 123 shift on my green dot. Was about to change the valve body.

In the sixties, my father had a '49 Dodge coupe as a 'work car'. It had Fluid Drive and I can remember as a child how smooth it was, compared to his older Rambler w/3 speed and OD.

I had a 1950 Dodge with the 3 speed Fluid Drive. Like the one in the video, not the more sophisticated drive that was available. To say it was slow, is an understatement when starting in third. Dead slow. You couldn't merge with any kind of traffic flow when left in 3rd. Maybe adequate 70 - 80 years ago. I drove it as a 3 speed and it was OK. Thanks for the video.

Sadly China dictates the end of use of all combustion cars worldwide. Chinas boss Darth Xi told all politicians that they wont do any business with underdeveloped countries that still allow CO2 emitting traffic, airplanes or combustion based industry after 2030...I am sure USA and UK also will be forced by China to 100% electric traffic because today no industrialized country can afford sanctions by China.... China also decided that their people wont become older than 65 years to to stop their over aging community....what that means you can imagine. We face a new silent mass murder over there. Lets hope that wont come over too.

What name of the company who rebuild the fluid couplings

I keep thinking the transmission like this with the shifter on the floor would be great for bracket racing.

Fluid coupling was just that..no torque multiplication whatsoever.check ur specs 🤪

Thanks!

There was no torque advantage to fluid drive it only slipped at low rpm. I owned a 47for three years. 83 mph was as fast as it would go down hill you could put it in second and drive it in stop and go traffic just using the gas and brake

ruclips.net/video/p-wfIrtVUmk/видео.html in this video it shows her not having push clutch the fluid drive but I know you have to do that to engage it in first

Do the old cars need to go in 2nd before 1st

The steering is really crooked

Thank you for demonstrating this technology .. keep going bro