You could have the world’s best automobile engine beneath the hood of your vehicle but there would be little point if you could not harness that engine’s power to make your wheels go round. It is your car’s transmission that actually allows you to drive it along. Most auto engines are reciprocating – meaning that burning fuel causes pistons to move up and down. There is some control over the power generated by altering the fuel input – i.e. from the throttle or accelerator pedal. The reciprocating movement is easily converted into rotary motion by the engine’s crankshaft but, this conversion is still basically raw power that lacks sufficient control for all the requirements of driving the attached vehicle (and the rotation is only in one direction).
The next step is to control that rotary movement or the torque coming out of the engine. Firstly, do you want the vehicle to move forwards or backwards and, then, you need to release torque to the wheels in a manner suitable to the driver’s intentions. More torque for pulling away or climbing hills, less for cruising along a flat highway, etc. The required power conversion and control is achieved within the vehicle’s gearbox and the output is then transferred to the driven wheels. Depending on engine position and number plus position of wheels to be driven, this last operation can be achieved in a number of ways. An automobile’s transmission system can be said to include everything in between the engine and the driven wheels.
What Can Go Wrong?
Regardless of whether the transmission is manual or automatic, its gearbox is quite complex with a number of shafts, linkages and various sizes and shapes of teethed cogs – all of which are enclosed in a “box” which has to be filled with lubricating fluid. Because at least one rotating shaft must enter this box and another one exit from it, special oil seals are required to keep the lubricant within the box.
It is these oil seals that are a very common cause of problems requiring Transmission Repair In Fort Wayne IN. Automobile gearbox seals are usually made from special grades of elastomeric polymers (rubber) designed to resist frictional heat and degradation from the lubricating fluids but, they do not last forever. If the seal fails, the lubricant leaks out and many of the rotating cogs within the gearbox can be damaged and you will then require Transmission Repair In Fort Wayne IN.
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