Talk:Powerglide

-- Worth mentioning that the Opel Diplomats 1966/1967 were also equipped with the Powerglide — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.251.131.226 (talk) 09:28, 7 March 2012 (UTC)

1973
The main article for Powerglide states they were discontinued by 1973, their last application being the Vega. I have an all original 1973 Chevrolet Nova, with a factory-installed Powerglide.

what is it?
above the tranny lines is bolt looking gismo but the head on it just spins around. what is it for?173.22.134.46 (talk) 15:52, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page not moved.   A rbitrarily 0   ( talk ) 20:44, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Powerglide → Powerglide (mechanics) — Powerglide will be turn into a disambiguation page. 75.142.152.104 (talk) 16:43, 16 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Oppose. Nothing to disambiguate. Andrewa (talk) 11:10, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not another one!  No reason given for the proposal.  Skinsmoke (talk) 16:55, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * See . 75.142.152.104 (talk) 17:53, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I almost speedy closed this but the "See all pages" thing might be this editor of questionable competence's attempt at a rationale so we might as well let the snowball finish melting. The Chevrolet Powerglide is definitely the primary topic here, it shouldn't be moved. --Sable232 (talk) 00:56, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment: I almost proposed a bulk speedy close, but thought better of it, and suspect I'm not the only one. But we're all learners here. No change of vote. Andrewa (talk) 08:00, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The Chev Powerglide is the primary article, and the other articles are positively (Corvair Powerglide) or probably (the other 2) named from the Chev 'glide. If there is a need for disambiguation, create Powerglide (disambiguation) and add a hatnote to this article, as prescribed by the manual of style for this situation where one article is so clearly the primary article. --Athol Mullen (talk) 15:21, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose unnecessary request. walk victor falktalk 01:31, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Slip and Slide
There was another reason we called this transmission the "Slip and Slide Powerglide" back in the day. After many of them got about 80,000 miles on them they would have difficulty going from low to high gear. They would "slip" and "slip" and finally "slide" into high gear. You could sometimes finesse the gas pedal when this happened and help the thing shift. Sometimes the shifting action got so slow as to be almost non-existant, in which case the driver would start out in low and shift into high when the rpm's got high enough.

2602:306:BDC0:CF90:44DA:6DA1:DAA5:874C (talk) 05:15, 30 December 2016 (UTC) 70.252.151.37 (talk) 00:04, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

How does a Powerglide transmission work?
I came here to have a look at the details of how this transmission actually works, but the article is underwhelmingly sparse with the description bit. The article definitely needs some attention. --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 20:53, 3 October 2020 (UTC)