Sentence examples for driveshafts from inspiring English sources

In 1986 "Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds" became GKN.The firm repeatedly leapt off one horse and on to another but the crucial jump came from the mid-1960s, when it was building up a business making the driveshafts that connect car engines to wheels.

Besides dispensing with the traditional engine bay on a car, hub motors save space and weight because there is no need for a mechanical transmission, with its driveshafts and differential units.Some critics of the technology think having heavy electric motors in the wheels of cars will have a negative effect on vehicle handling.

The driveshafts are now designed so that each has the same resistance to twisting as the other, which should stop the former tendency to tug sideways on sudden acceleration.

The fasteners that attach the inboard ends of the driveshafts to the transmission could loosen, resulting "in a loss of drive capability," Chrysler said in the letter.

Eliminating the need for driveshafts, the setup allows for a flat cockpit deck, Nissan says.

AUDIS with underperforming heaters and Ford pickups with clunking driveshafts are among the mechanical ailments covered in recent technical service bulletins.

Given a petrol or diesel motor, most engineers have opted for an engine compartment at the front of the vehicle, and a driveshaft that delivers power to the wheels.

The Greeks are thought to have possessed crude wooden gears, which were used to lift heavy building materials, haul up water, and hoist anchors, but historians do not generally credit them with possessing scientifically precise gears — gears cut from metal and arranged into complex "gear trains" capable of carrying motion from one driveshaft to another.

The vehicle was being kept afloat by pontoons made from fifty-five-gallon drums; there was a propeller attached to its driveshaft.

Qi said that the T-11 had a slight problem with driveshaft length, which meant that the outside wheel slipped a little on tight turns.

To counter the gyroscopic effect produced by the car's spinning motor, a circular brass flywheel was fitted to its driveshaft to spin in the opposite direction of the motor.