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Was it a glorified Dynaflow ?

3:10 Gets to the point.

I remember it being called the troubleglide, or even the terrible glide.

Oh come on. It was nothing more than a Buick Dynaflow introduced in the 1940s. Do your homework.

The Turboglide was Chevy's attempt to copy the smooth Dynaflow... which, unfortunately wasn't a worthy objective... the Dynaflow grossly wasted power and was more complex. The objective should have been a multi-gear tranny. Wait a minute ! GM already had the hydramatic. Why didn't they simply use that (or an improved version) ? That would have saved my bro from substituting an old-fashioned but trusty Powerglide into his '57 BelAir Sport Sedan, as was commonly done when the TGlides inevitably died

I remember they were junk , very undependable , and chevys power glide wasn’t much better

Apparently they didn’t think to include a transmission fluid cooler with the transmission.

Turboglide or as we called it…….Turboslide.

In the 60’s my dad was a dealer and bought and sold many Chevys with the Turboglide. He was constantly sending them to Suburban Transmission in Waltham and having them convert them over to Powerglide transmissions. My pals and I converted many to sticks.

The BMW automatic transmission zf is a coss trimatic and Borg Warner

GM at the time used Type A trans fluid, which had whale oil (WHALE OIL!) in it which broke down when over-heated, so if the trans had high heat conditions, which the TG often did from its complexity, they could fail. A TG, if it could be modified to run on synthetic, would be cool. But, WHALE oil!!

Any of these still on the road? Are rebuild kits even available?

Most transmission shops refused to work on them. They were usually replaced with a Powerglide. It took some modifications to do this but it was the best solution.

Ai voices suck. Use your own.

First, any transmission with a fluid coupling or torque converter is a CVT. That is how the original Packard Ultramatic and Buick DynaFlow worked. Packard added a lock-up torque converter, which bypassed the CVT function. Buick DynaFlow later employed a 2-pitch stator to give the cars an extra push when needed(initial take-off and at full throttle). The TurboGlide was Chevrolet's answer to the non-shifting Buick DynaFlow. The first problem was that Chevrolet drivers were used to transmissions which shifted and didn't understand the TurboGlide, nor it's slushbox nature. If they wanted a car with a slushbox they'd have bought a Buick. With torque converter or fluid coupling non-gear shifting transmissions, fluid cooling was a serious concern. Requiring the fluid to do most of the work put a strain on it. Overheated fluid won't do what the fluid was meant to do and was disastrous to the other components which required the fluid to operate. Buick adopted the principles of this triple-turbine non-shifting transmission in 1958, but saw the writing on the wall and discontinued it after the 1959 model year. Chevrolet didn't. After replacing the TurboGlide with a conventional PowerGlide by dealers under warranty, Chevrolet realized that the transmission wasn't such a good idea. Yes, 1961 was the last model year for this ill-fated transmission. Not to just through the TurboGlide away, with it's aluminum one-piece case, the automatic became the basis for the next-generation PowerGlide in 1962. It was a wise move which extended the lifespan of the PowerGlide into the 1971 model year. It was also employed in all of GM's other makes, as the base automatic, except Cadillac.

My 1st job after school was as a partsman for our lcal Chevy dealer. I had a 57 and we hung our keys on the service board in case we got a car delivery and need room. There were a lot of "upgrades" and they would grab my keys to do my car 1st just in case there were hiccups 😐 One of the changes was renaming the Hill Retarder to Grade Retarder because people who hadn't read the owner's manual would pull out to pass and shift to HR thinking it was high range.😢

*The "Turbo-Slide" was a better transmission than the ... **_"Power-Slip"._*

My first car at sixteen was a 57 Chevy which was ten years old at the time. It just had the 283 and two-speed auto. It still could do 80 miles an hour easily.

I had a 57 Chevy with the Turbo Glide, and it was sick in acceleration because of too much slip, similar to Buick's Dyno Flow transmission. I soon replaced it with a 4-speed straight drive. It made a tremendous difference in the performance of the car.

The old slip glide.

i realize it is a differnt ball game but i had an Oldsmobile "Jetaway" with variable turbine

We had a 59 impala with the 348 turbo glide. We also had a 56 Packard with the 352 and ultramatic. The Chevy was a replacement for our 1949 Buick Roadmaster with Dynaflow. The roadmaster was terrible on acceleration, fuel consumption, etc. The Impala had 100 more horsepower and was still terrible on acceleration and fuel consumption. 9:33 our car of choice was the Packard. Both fast and reliable.

We named the turbos "buttermilk drive"

I built a couple of these back when I owned a transmission shop. They were junk

Muito bom! Obrigado por compartilhar

Your opening sequence looks just like 2024 Havana.

dreadful appalling awefull English, constantly repeating, sentence headings, with no details until minutes in. then poor explanations with n poor illustrations, usually it's Americans who can't speak properly, but in this case it sounds like a dickhead brit, get off the Web now,

To day would be a good to have in a frout wheel drive car and it wouldn't take Up much space would be great As to be on the lift for a long time

Is there any turbo glide transmission still working today or is there any one that could Fix it properly

A s___ trans, even worse than the powerglide

It was the run up for the THM350

Had a GR. ( Grade Retard) it sounded like Grind 😅

The torqueflite, of the identical period, was better in every way. At the time drag racers were finding ways to use it behind GM engines because of it's incredible consistency in repeatable results.

Oddly enough it seems better than the cvt of today when launched and several years after. When you consider technological changes and improvements over the years the modern cvt was more of a step backwards.

Truly enjoying this sister channel - and well explained. Thank you ~ Chuck

I had a 58 Impala 348 turboglide. After 2nd failure I converted it to a powerglide & put over 100,000 miles on the car. Except for the transmission, it was a great car

Personally, I found a modified automatic with its crisp shift( via a modified valve body), very satisfying. Why would someone interested in performance, want something that had imperceptable shifting ?

My step-granddad had a 1960 Bel Air sedan with Turboglide. As I recall, after 5-6 months, he changed it for Powerglide.

Let's be real, they never made automatics reliable. It's always been a money grabbing gimmick, and Americans gobble them up.

I had a turbo glide in my 1957 Belaire and it didn’t seem very unusual.

AI scriptwriting, I dont know anything more after I've watched th video

In 1989, when I was 17 old, I had an elderly acquaintance who worked with GM back in the day tell me what he noticed about the Turbo Glide. He informed that the majority of the Turbo Glides turned out to be so bad that people ended up taking them out & putting Powerglides in. Then I noticed how cast iron Powerglides became for more common on 348 powered Impalas and even more by the years after '58. Almost all 348 powered '60 Impalas I've seen were w/ Powerglides (for an automatic) & no '61 have I ever seen w/ a Turbo Glide. And that cast iron Powerglide was a pain in many ways. The aluminum Powerglide that got started in '62 proved to be all the good things that the cast iron Powerglide should've been but wasn't. Many reliable sources confirmed that to me. And I can attest that, myself now that I have a ''64 Impala SS w/ 327/300 horsepower and Powerglide. Cast iron Powerglides were officially obsolete by '63. My '64 shifts way better than any pre-'63 Chevy w/ cast iron Powerglide. I'm so sure of that that I don't even think I need to drive anything w/ a cast iron Powerglide.

Buick DynaFlow of that era used the same principle. Was it the same? Was the TurboGlide's fuel economy better or worse than the PowerGlide?

Outstanding look at the turbo glide. Like the fuel injection system of the time, it suffered from being ahead of its time and ignorance. ~ Chuck

Also known as the Troubleglide.

The main issue with the Turboglide transmission, Chevrolet obviously did not do enough research and development time. Had they performed enough real life road tests to see what would happen. One issue was that is was very detrimental to drive in the Hill Retard/Grade Retard position on the shift quadrant, this was for engine braking only. One thing that helped was an Air Cooled transmission cooler before the fluid was routed to the radiator transmission cooler. These transmissions were an option on the performance engines, like the Power Pack 283, and the later 348 cu in engine. I do not ever recall seeing a 6 cylinder engine with a Turboglide, but probably would have been a little more durable. Selling the transmission, and let the Customer do the testing did not work very well, as there were a lot of issues with transmission case failures, Fluid passage ways leaking, and cracking and the wrong passage getting pressure etc.

I was 12 in 1957 NO one liked the turbowglide. it was a failure.

They are head of their Time with a gear with a variable torque converter to multiple torque the same As modern day car with a throw away gear box not worth it to rebuild