Friday, December 9, 2011

How does a manual transmission work?

I know what a manual transmission is, but I am finding a hard time figuring out how it works.|||how exactly it works? well whenever you push the clutch (on a hydraulic clutch) the master cylinder pushes fluid down your clutch hose to your slave cylinder, the slave cylinder pushes your throwout bearing back releasing your clutch plate, now lets take a step back, your flywheel is connected to your engine via the crankshaft balancing out the forces (somewhat) of your cylinders creating a smoother engine the flywheel transfers the mechanical force of your engine into speed for your car, now whenever you release the clutch your clutch engages by your throwout bearing being released and pushed back in, now whenever you shift gears manually you are moving gears in and out depending on the gear you have selected, you have helix cut gears (side cut gears) that depending if you need a gear reduction or an overdrive gear will reduce or increase your tire speed and you also have a couple sets of gears, i believe right around 4 that your power will transfer through different gears in a set pattern for whatever gear you have selected.|||lets start at the flywheel. it rotates at engine speed and acts as a balancer using centrifugal force to help the crankshaft rotation. When you depress the clutch pedal you are engaging the pressure plate that pushes the clutch disc away from the flywheel. the clutch disc rides on the flywheel allowing the engine's rotation to turn the transmission input shaft. when you release the pedal, the clutch moves back to the flywheel and BOOM! off you go.





i hope this was simple enough so you could understand it.|||ok folks, it looks like a few of you have not torn into an automatic or a manual in a while so the idea that they work the same is just false.


the clutch is used to seperate the power coming into the trans so that you can shift with out that nasty grinding. power comes into the trans ans is transferred to a cluster gear where that power is transferred to a second gear then power moves on to the output shaft, at that point we are out of the trans so to this question i am done. ill give you a site to look into that answer a little more.|||it works about on the same order as an automatic except with a manual you have to change the gears and automatic it changes the gears for you.|||automatic shifts for you, manual, you do the shifting...

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