Chapter 7

Technician A says the hypoid gearset was designed to lower the body profile. Technician B says hypoid gears provide for smoother and quieter action. Who is correct?

both A and B

The overhung-mounted pinion has three bearings supporting the pinion.

False

The main types of _____ are torque sensitive, speed sensitive, or mechanically locked.

Limited-slip differentials

_____ is a suspension alignment term used to define the amount of centerline of a wheel is tilted inward or outward from the true vertical plane of the wheel.

Camber

The teeth of a hypoid gear are _____, causing a wiping action when meshing.

curved to follow a spiral

Backlash is the clearance or play between two gears in a mesh.

True

Geared, torque-sensitive mechanical limited-slip differentials use _____ gears which react to

an increase or decrease in torque at one of two shafts.

worm

In a ring gear and pinion gear set, the pinion is the larger drive gear and the ring gear is the smaller driven gear.

False

To replace a ring and pinion gearset with one of the correct ratio, the ratio of the original set must be known.

True

_____ express the number of turns the drive gear makes compared to one turn of the driven gear it mates with.

Gear ratios