Thread: Ashcroft Vs Local

Judging by the lack of response no-one has had a locally made/refurbished TC in their Disco.
I was hoping to pick up some local knowledge before having to commit to any one with my auto trans.
Ah well, I'll contact a few places and see if I can glean any answers and keep the site up to date with whatever I may find.

Cheers

A mate of mine used Torque Converter Technologies in Melb to make a converter from Gm gen3 v8 5.7 litre to a ZF good job and took a beating never failed
I know its not Td5 related but its a plug for said company

I tend to think that Ashcroft have done the hard work and its all bolt in and play with no dramas or cost blow outs rather than somebody else trying out an idea that they've never critically thought about, gearboxes in and out and it still not being quite right because it was their first one.

I, like may, have the Ashcroft unit. I don't understand why you would not go with a tried and tested product that has been around for a while now and got the results promised, rather than trying to reinvent the same thing.

Also to consider is that Australian manufacturing is very very expensive and would likely end up costing you equal or more than freighting the Ashcroft unit over.

https://www.google.com/url?q=http://...-thcPT29OV8qfA

And that is the way I have decided to go.

Thanks for the replies, they helped make up my mind, as did time and cost.

Ashcroft around Au $1150, TCT $960 & GST helped make up my mind especially as the car is booked in with TRS at Lonsdale for a tranny transplant in a week, TCT are making them as a stock item so supply is going to be OK. They have just started this, one is almost completed luckily as it will be completed in time for me.

I have been recording my fuel consumption so I will be able to keep track on any improvement in that, there have been reports on drive ability so a comparison from another perspective might be interesting.

Ah well, fingers crossed that I have done the right thing.



Mike

Good on you for supporting a local company, and good on them for responding to the need at a comparable price. I hope they stand behind their product, and become as successful as Ashcroft.

I have bought a TCT unit for my TD5 Defender.
You will find most Transmission shops send their TC's off to someone like TCT to rebuild.
The attributes of a torque converter can generally be modified/provided/rebuilt by any competent specialist.
Torque converters are not the domain of Ashcroft
yet they are for TCT and others.
TCT do TCs for almost everything and have responded to requests from the market here in Australia for a modified unit, which is what most of us complain about the lack of, when it comes to local manufactures/ suppliers.

Note ! I'm not putting down Ashcroft at all, I have numerous parts of theirs on my truck and it is good gear. ( ha pun) I'm just pointing out some things to consider.

As Ashcroft were out if stock and TCT knew what was needed and were prepared to provide me the service at a competitive price with warranty it became a little easier to make a decision.
Now the truck isn't on the road yet with the new TC so a report will come later and not having driven either TC can only be what is experienced compared to stock.
TCT service was excellent and had no trouble taking the time to answer my questions.

I don't expect any issues at all and am happy to have the TC from an Australian specialist who I can call on during normal hrs and in the unlikely event of a problem, can send the TC to without the return shipping cost being the same as buying a new unit.