3D printed gearboxes are great for experimental designs, but due to roughness and inaccuracies in the printed surfaces, they can wear quickly and be rather noisy. As a possible alternative ...

Gearboxes and gearheads, also called gear reducers or speed reducers, are power transmission devices that use a gear arrangement in an enclosed housing to transfer energy, increase torque and reduce ...

And while we’re pretty sure that [Retsetman] didn’t invent it after hitting his head on the toilet, this magnetic gearbox is still really cool. Where most gearboxes have, you know, gears ...

Understand the technology and fundamentals of gears so that you can successfully engage with the design, manufacture and operation of gears and gearboxes. During this course, you will learn about the ...

In the not-too-distant past if you were in the market for a new car you would have been faced with two choices when it came to the gearbox – manual, or automatic. These days though there’s ...

What does DSG stand for? In the original German, DSG stands for Direktschaltgetriebe, roughly translating to Direct Shift Gearbox. It is also sometimes called a DCT or dual-clutch transmission, as all ...

The steering gearbox contains the gears that transmit the driver’s steering inputs to the steering linkage that turns the wheels, and it multiplies the driver’s steering changes so that the ...

A dual-clutch gearbox is a type of automatic transmission that you’ll find on many modern cars, particularly family cars from Volkswagen, Skoda and Audi. Although it uses the word clutch in the ...

Gear Ratio Ratios are generally specified at X: 1, where X is an integer. To ease the burden on our search engine, this ratio is entered as X/1, or X. Therefore a ratio of 5:1 is entered as 5. A 5:1 ...

Semi-auto seven-speed later this year * Available for A4, A5 and Q5 models * Updated gearbox also for TT and A3... The S tronic gearbox currently has six speeds and is only available in Audi TT ...

While 1.6-litre (and more recently 1.5-litre) engines have become the norm for hot hatch superminis, and indeed formed the basis of the last two generations of Cooper S, the F56 model instead used ...

The steering gearbox worm wheel, which controls steering, may have been manufactured incorrectly in affected vehicles and swell while in use, thinning out the film of grease between the worm wheel ...