Driveline vibrations are easy to feel, but solving them can puzzle even the most methodical of knuckle-busters. Does your car have the highway vibes? Just sending your driveshaft out for a balance job ...
How often does something really cool come along in the world of driveshafts? Sure, we’ve seen shafts with CVs on both ends, shafts with tractor splines, and even shafts with square tubing (don’t ask), ...
Driveshafts do a big job in our Fords, Mercs, and Lincolns. They take a powertrain's rotary motion and carry it to the differential and drive axles. This is not an easy task. Not only must a ...
Most automobiles today use rigid driveshafts to deliver power from a transmission to the wheels. A pair of short driveshafts is commonly used to send power from a central differential, transmission, ...
Everyone who successfully completed Driveshaft 101 last semester, er, in last month's issue, now has a better appreciation of the challenging environment that the racing driveshaft must survive in and ...
Some owner-operators nowadays, enamored with the image first popularized by Southern California’s low-ridin’ community, deflate their trucks’ air suspension so the frame hangs several inches closer to ...
Every gearhead knows that the transfer of power from an engine to the axle and drive wheel in a rear-wheel drive vehicle requires a driveshaft, and that this highly loaded part is typically made of ...
A resolver is a sensor that estimates the angle of a rotating shaft, such as the shaft of an electrical motor used in automotive traction inverter applications. To obtain a digital representation of ...