Technical Transmission General Articles

Technical Transmission General

General Transmission issues are varied and may include several causes and ways of treatment. Transmission experts share their knowledge and provide useful tips for the industry people to follow.



Nowadays, there is still no ideal solutions on how to transmit torque from the engine to the drive wheels — actually, there’s not even a universal agreement on the best location for the switching mechanism that controls the ratio changes.
Not always bubbles on transmission dipstick are caused by insufficient ATF (transmission oil) level or its overflow. Problem can be more serious. As a rule, this symptom indicates certain faults in the transmission operation. In most cases, transmission fluid foaming is caused by abnormal ATF levels, but sometimes it is a result of transmission being damaged badly.
Much like modern automotive trend on shifting from with manual transmissions to more confortable automatics, in the first decade of the last century there was a demand for a semi-automatic transmission that operated without the driver involvement. And automotive engineers of that time had some interesting engineering solutions to offer.