Drawing on that experience ... and knowing the warning signs that your transmission is going bad, can all help make sure your gear changes remain as smooth as silk.

A transmission is a vehicle’s gearbox. It’s roughly analogous to the gear shifter and chain system employed in bicycles. Transmission components are always mounted straight on the engine so that their ...

See All 55 Photos Gear Vendors has a way to let you possess the proverbial cake and dine on it as well. Their overdrive unit bolts onto the back of your existing non-overdrive transmission ...

The power created by this rotation is then transmitted from the shaft to the transmission's first planetary gear set. This type of transmission has what is called hydraulic control. The ...

A modern automatic transmission uses one or more sets of epicyclic or planetary gears (consisting of a sun, planets, and a ring gear) to achieve many different (typically between two and ten ...

That’s when your transmission will use another gear ratio to turn the wheels faster but with less force. Eventually, you may get overdrive, where the input gear is bigger than the output.