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What Is A Final Drive?: Presentation by Howard Bellaby

The final drive consists of a hydraulic motor connected to a gearbox via a drive shaft. It enables machines to move forwards, backwards, and climb gradients. Oil is pumped into the motor under pressure, causing the swash plate and drive shaft to rotate. This rotation is translated into high torque by gears inside the gearbox, reducing the speed. The rotating gearbox case then turns the drive sprocket, engaging the track chain and propelling the machine.

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What Is A Final Drive?: Presentation by Howard Bellaby

The final drive consists of a hydraulic motor connected to a gearbox via a drive shaft. It enables machines to move forwards, backwards, and climb gradients. Oil is pumped into the motor under pressure, causing the swash plate and drive shaft to rotate. This rotation is translated into high torque by gears inside the gearbox, reducing the speed. The rotating gearbox case then turns the drive sprocket, engaging the track chain and propelling the machine.

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What Is A Final Drive?

Presentation By Howard Bellaby


What does it do?

• The final drive makes the machine go backwards.

• It makes the machine go forwards.

• It enables the machine to climb gradients


What does a final drive consist of?

Motor
• It consists of a hydraulic motor and a gearbox.

• They are connected by a drive shaft and bolted


together.

Gear Box
How does it do it?

• Oil is fed from the machine’s hydraulic pump


through a hose into the motor side of the final
In a human body
drive. normal blood
flow is about 300
litres per hour. 

• The oil is fed under pressure ( measured in bar )


and at a flow rate measured in litres per minutes (
l/min).
Like water down a plughole…

• A measured amount of oil enters at speed and


under pressure into final drive’s motor and starts
to rotate – like water down a plughole

• The rotating action pushes against a plate. It starts


to rotate with the flow and is attached to a drive
shaft. The plate is called a swash plate.
Speed in to torque

Torque is the twisting force that tends


So now we have a rotating shaft. to cause rotation. The point where the
object rotates is known as the axis
The shaft mates with the gears inside gearbox of rotation.
portion of the final drive and turns them translating
Mathematically, torque
the shaft’s speedy rotation at low torque/high speed can be written as

into high torque/low speed. T = F * r * sin(theta)

and it has units of


Newton-meters.
Gearing up (or down)

Inside the gearbox, there are sets of gears


placed on top of each other.

The teeth on the gear sets are numbered in a


way to reduce one turn of the drive shaft into
a powerful amount of torque. This reduction
is known as the gearbox ratio e.g. 48 :1.
On the case…

The final set of gears engage with a gear ring on the inside of
the gearbox case and turn the case .

This rotating case is connected to a flange onto to which a drive


sprocket is bolted.

The drive sprocket teeth engage the bushes of the track chain
The chain moves and drives the machine forward or backwards.

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