Sentences with phrase «than the input shaft»

This means that the output shaft of a gearbox rotates at a slower rate than the input shaft, and this reduction in speed produces a mechanical advantage, increasing torque.

Not exact matches

The gear box in these transmissions is also about nine kilograms lighter, and thereby more efficient, than a regular six - speed automatic transmission, because a torque converter is no longer required to move fluid around to spin its input shaft.

Actually, in a synchro transmission, the engine is spinning a lot more than just the input shaft even when in neutral.