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    it was part of the vehicle wherein the engine was depending on how it is place in chasis(body of the car). This document discuss the process and the type of front wheel geometry including the most common part of steering system.

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    Front-Wheel-Drive with

    Steering

    Objectives

    Introduction
    Parts of FWD and Its functions
    Advantage and Disadvantage of FWD
    FWD vs RWD
    Steering Parts

    Introduction
    Most automobiles today have frontwheel drive
    FWD car has transaxle
    Drive axles extend to front wheels out of
    each side of transaxle
    Each end of the drive axle is a CV joint
    Transaxle can be either manual or
    automatic

    Front wheel drive (FWD)

    Front-engine longitudinally
    mounted/ Front-wheel drive

    Front-engine transversely mounted/


    Front-wheel drive

    Parts of FWD and Its


    functions

    FIGURE 3-2 Transverse (a) and longitudinal (b) mounted FWD drivetrains. Note that
    (b) can easily be redesigned to drive a shaft to the rear wheels of a 4WD or AWD
    vehicle.

    Parts of FWD and Its functions


    Transmission/gearbox
    - usesgearsandgear trains
    - provide speedandtorqueconversions from a rotating
    power source to another device
    Transaxle
    - major mechanical component that combines the
    functionality of thetransmission, the differential, and
    associated components of the drivenaxleinto one
    integrated assembly.
    Final drive
    -is the last in the set of components which delivers
    torque to thedrive wheels.

    Parts of FWD and Its


    functions
    Clutch
    - mechanical device that engages and disengages
    the powertransmission, especially fromdriving
    shaftto driven shaft.
    Differential
    -is a particular type of simpleplanetary gear
    trainthat has the property that the angular velocity
    of its carrier is the average of the angular velocities
    of its sun and annular gears.
    Drive shafts/ drive axleandconstant-velocity
    jointsto each wheel

    FWD axle
    Drive axles for FWD commonly called
    half shafts
    Half shafts allow wheels to turn and
    have suspension movements
    Half shafts consist of inner CV joint, axle
    shaft and outer CV joint
    Most half shafts are unequal length
    causing torque steer

    Drive Axle Components


    Outer CV-joint
    Allows wheels to steer while axle is
    rotating
    Inner CV-joint
    Allows for suspension changes while
    axle is rotating
    Axle shaft
    Transmits power from inner to outer
    CV-joint

    CV-Joints
    Outboard joint types
    Rzeppa CV joint
    Inboard joint types
    Double-offset joint
    Tripod Tripod-type joint
    Cross-groove plunge joint
    CV-Joint Functions
    a.) Fixed joint
    Does not move in and out to change shaft length
    Is used as the outboard joint
    b.) Plunging joint
    Changes in length to allow movement of the
    suspension
    Is used as the inboard joint

    Inboard Joints
    Tripod-type joint
    Has longer grooves than a fixed-type joint to allow for
    plunging
    Ball-type joint
    Is similar to a Rzeppa joint but has elongated grooves
    in the inner race
    Is commonly known as a double-offset joint
    Outboard joint
    Rzeppa CV joint (Ball-type)
    Was named after its designer, Alfred Hans Rzeppa
    Uses three to six steel balls held together by a steel
    cage
    The balls ride in a socket to allow rotation and turning
    Is used in most front-wheel-drive vehicles

    FWD Wheel Bearing Styles


    Double-row, angular-contact bearings
    (a)
    Are used on most General Motors,
    DaimlerChrysler, and European cars
    Have two rows of ball bearings located
    next to each other
    Opposed tapered-roller bearings (b)
    Are used on Fords and most Asian cars
    a.
    b.

    Advantage and Disadvantage of FWD


    Advantages
    More efficient drivetrain
    Better fuel economy
    Combined with MacPherson struts: less
    unsprung weight for better handling
    Transmission hump is eliminated

    A few FWD engines have been


    mounted longitudinally
    Most transaxles mounted sideways

    Advantage and Disadvantage of FWD


    Disadvantages
    - FWD depends on drive shafts which
    contain CV joints which allow the vehicles
    to move in all directions that have a lot of
    defects.
    - Difficulty to direct the car when we start
    moving with high speed.
    - Unbalanced car because the mass is
    concentrated at the forward part of the car
    only
    - Torque steer

    Rear wheel drive (RWD)

    FWD VS RWD

    FWD VS RWD
    1- Load on tires
    *The biggest benefit to rear wheel drive is that it spreads the
    loads of the car across all four tires of a car , the rear wheel do
    the pushing while the front wheels are for the steering duties .
    * In front wheel drive cars the front tires must perform both
    functions , the engine acceleration\deceleration forces act on
    the front wheels thats beside the steering duties.

    2- Better weight balance


    *Rear wheel drive cars have the engine in the front and the
    drive components in the rear , but the front drive cars have
    every thing up front .
    *So by balancing the front and rear of the car you can improve
    the handling, acceleration, braking and thus safety of the car .

    3-Torque Steer
    *Front wheel Drive cars have a problem known as
    Torque Steer. This occurs when the acceleration
    of the engine effects the cars steering . Since
    the driveline is connected to the steering wheels
    the torque of the engine applies force to the
    front wheels causing the car to pull to the right
    during acceleration.
    *Rear Drive cars do not have this problem since
    the engine is not connected to the steering gear.

    wheel
    STEERING Steering
    PARTS
    -manipulated by the driver

    which the rest of the


    steering systemresponds
    to such driver inputs.
    Steering column
    - the shaft on which a
    steering wheel in mounted
    and by which it is
    connected by the steering
    gear.
    Steering gear
    - Rack and pinion which
    connect steering wheel
    and the
    Tie rod
    -Transmit motion from
    steering wheel to front
    wheels

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