How to Make Your Car Last Forever: Avoid Expensive Repairs, Improve Fuel Economy, Understand Your Warranty, Save Money

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Chapter 3 Transmissions and Drivetrains The transmission and drivetrain are responsible for powering your vehicl ...

TWO BASIC TRANSMISSIONS DESIGNS: MANUAL AND AUTOMATIC Below is a typical manual transmission setup that is u ...

As illustrated here, there are many parts that make up a manual transmission. Gears, cogs, syncro ring ...

Automatic transmissions are complicated. They have many more parts than manual transmissions. The reas ...

MAINTENANCE TIP For the most part, typical maintenance on manual transmissions involves checking and maintaining the ...

The automatic transmission achieves forward motion in a completely different way. When a gear is select ...

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Now that we have a fluid linkup, how do we accelerate forward and shift gears? The gears are applied by a se ...

The Hydrostatic CVT uses variable-displacement hydraulic pumps to vary the fluid flow into hydrostatic moto ...

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DRIVETRAIN CONFIGURATIONS Now that the basics of manual, automatic, and CVT transmissions are behind us, let’s take ...

and rear wheels. The center differential allows the front and rear wheels to turn at different speeds as nee ...

Part-time four-wheel-drive (PT 4WD) is a system that only gets used when the roadways are slippery ...

Permanent 4WD is similar to full-time 4WD, but it has no two-wheel-drive mode. The vehicle is always in 4WD, ...

4WD DRIVE TERMS DEFINED Locking differential: Locks both wheels on the axle, forcing them to turn together ...

TRANSFER CASES The transfer case is an auxiliary gearbox connected to the back of the transmission that ...