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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.
If a car driver decides to change the fluid
inside the transmission or engine, then he needs a convenient and high-quality
unit for
extraction of old fluid, its transfer, and most importantly for
pumping in the new transmission fluid inside the gearbox (or other car
component). Thus, fluid syringes (also known as oil suction guns) became quite
popular among car repair specialists and drivers.
If you independently perform complex repair
operations on the transmission (which usually involve the transmission
tear-down), you can face some difficulties at the stage of reassembly, namely,
when it comes to connection of the gearbox to the engine. In the article, we
will consider the question of how to attach manual as well as automatic
gearboxes to the car engine.
Joint efforts of Opel and Luk engineers led to
development of the automated Easytronic gearbox which combines advantages of
manual and automatic transmissions. In this article, we will consider design
peculiarities, operating modes, pros and cons, typical problems of the
Easytronic transmission and tips on how to prolong its service life.
Some cars equipped with automatic transmissions
have an operating mode named “overdrive” (or O/D) i.e. the highest gear. This
mode can be considered as an analog of the 5-th gear in manual transmissions.
In terms of operation, cars equipped with
automatic transmissions differ from cars with manual transmissions, and it
especially becomes obvious in winter time. That is why winter driving with the
automatic transmission requires strict adherence to some rules.
Nowadays, at the time of rapid developments of
technology and innovations in the field of car transmissions, shift from manual
to automatic (and more complex) transmissions creates new opportunities for first-time
entrepreneurs and skilled transmission repair specialists to try and succeed in
the transmission repair/rebuilding business.
The abbreviation “DSG” stands for Direkt Schalt
Getrieb and literally means “Direct Shift Gearbox”. In fact, this is only one
of many types of preselective automated gearboxes equipped with two clutches.
Basically, DSG it is the manual transmission with the automated control.
Today,
most drivers choose cars with automatic transmissions, but not all car owners
are familiar with elementary operating rules of automatic transmissions. In this article,
we will consider what can go wrong with this crucial car component and what the
owners should do to prolong its service life.
Transmission Control Module in Automatic Transmissions: Location, Functions and Common Repair Issues
The transmission control module (TCM) is
considered to be one of the most complicated structural elements of the
automatic transmission. It consists of numerous microcircuits and chips which
analyze hundreds of transmission parameters in real-time mode.
When driving a car equipped with the automatic transmission
one may wonder what is a kick-down and how it should be used. This is particularly
true for novice drivers or experienced drivers, who only recently moved from
manual to automatic transmission. Let’s provide insight into this helpful
operation mode.
Failure of the automatic transmission often
turns out to be the case when car owners decide to replace the broken automatic
transmission with the less expensive manual transmission. In this article we
will consider the implementation of this procedure and how to do it by
yourself.
Like
many e-cars, the Tesla Model S has no need of numerous car components including
a transmission, gears and a clutch. Therefore, this car has fewer elements
prone to wear or failures requiring repair. In this
article, we will consider the powertrain solution implemented in the Model S.