Checking the gearbox oil level, draining and refilling
A gearbox contains a great many moving parts. Some of them are submerged in oil and some of them are splashed — that is, the oil is carried to them by other moving parts. Read more
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How manual gearboxes work
Internal-combustion engines run at high speeds, so a reduction in gearing is necessary to transmit power to the drive wheels, which turn much more slowly. Read more
How automatic gearboxes work
Most modern automatic gearboxes have a set of gears called a planetary or epicyclic gear train. Read more