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POWER TRAIN
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Manual Transaxle
Power Flow
N72ZC02AA
The
F5MCl
transaxle is a fully synchronized (except
until a synchronizer is engaged. When the
synchro-
reverse), constant mesh transaxle. “Constant Mesh”
nizer engages a speed gear, power is transferred
a
means that all of the forward gears are constantly to the output shaft, then out to the wheels. Power
in mesh with each other. This eliminates the need
flows from the input shaft, to the output shaft, across
to move gears together for engagement like reverse.
the appropriate synchronizer, to the differential
as-
The gears turn whenever the input shaft is supplying
sembly, then out to the
halfshafts.
power; however, none of the gears transmits torque
Differential
assembly
Input
shaft
1
qu!put
shaft
plnlon
gear
\
Ring gear