I’m trying to find out what the availability is of transaxles for low power (circa 20hp) quadricycle type applications. Are there companies that supply this type of unit, or even component parts such as synchros, final drive or differentials suitable for this application?
If anyone out there...
I'm trying to find out how much resource (both human and financial) the 3 companies mentioned expend in the field of automatic truck and bus transmission engineering R+D.
The ZF annual report gives a fair amount of info. on group spends and activities, the Eaton report gives just the $ figure...
Matthew,
Thanks for this, but the links in this thread are to passenger car stuff. Whilst this is all very interesting, I'm really looking for off-highway and commercial vehicle applications.
Thanks again anyway.
Regards,
Billsy
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Using Dual clutch arrangements in place of torque converters
I'm doing some research in this area and need examples of where this has been done, particularly for off-highway and commercial vehicle applications. If anyone is aware of appropriate public domain information, and is able to direct...
Does anyone know what the benefits of magnesium transmission casing are; structural/mechanical properties as well as cost compared to Al/Fe? Examples of applications would be helpful.
