There’s no bones about it: slipping transmissions cost big money, whether you’re a humble owner or a giant car company. Perhaps the best recent example is the PowerShift transmission, which in recent ...

Dodge launched its pony car at the very last moment, in 1970, after six other manufacturers had already saturated the market. The model was received with standing ovations, and the nameplate sold some ...

The flywheel is an integral part of a manual transmission, and since it's subjected to continuous wear and tear, it will eventually fail, preventing you from shifting gears. Fortunately, that doesn’t ...

Problems in managing the slack limited the speed at which the line could be operated. A company technician explains, “The combined inertia of the chain and the product it is carrying cause the chain ...

Slip clutches are commonly used to protect against overloads, but they serve other functions as well — increasing machine speeds, applying constant tension, indexing ... Let's review. A&A ...

I have a new manual-transmission 2016 Subaru Forester with 3,600 miles on it. When I park on a hill and put the car in first gear, it creeps downhill in increments, regardless of whether it faces ...

Schaeffler has been granted a patent for a slip clutch device for electric driving machines. The device includes a torque-limiting slip clutch with an electrical insulation element to prevent ...

Americans predominantly buy automatic cars nowadays, with the number of manuals dwindling by the day. Every year, we lose a ...

It doesn’t matter how much power your 1996-2004 SOHC Modular Mustang is making at the crank if most of it is lost in the driveline via clutch slippage and the dead weight of a heavy low-tech clutch.

The objective of this work is to generate a robust slipping-clutch model that will be employed as a component for driveline dynamic simulations. The model was mainly focused on the relatively detailed ...