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The purpose of this paper is to share with the Product Engineering community relevant learnings on Internal Shift System for Manual Transmissions in order to promote transmission performance and eliminate potential concerns on shift quality and system durability for passenger cars. The subsystems in focus are the Manual Transmission Sliding Sleeve, Gear Fork, Rods and Synch Rings. One important shift ability response that directly affects customer satisfaction is the Gear Clashing. This is a noise and vibration phenomena resultant of parallel synch activation while gear is intended to be engaged. This phenomenon was determinate by lack of Gear Fork design characteristics, which allowed two forks displacement at same time during cross-shifting maneuvers. Through simulation analysis, which consists a detailed select and shift 3D stack-limit motion, an abnormal displacement of non-intended flyer fork displacement has been captured in a specific hardware under development.

Changes in the macro economic scenario of Brazil during the latest 10 years resulted on several changes in the auto industry market. One, which affected important requirements of the light duty trucks, regards the migration of customers from passenger car segments to light duty pickups. A considerable portion of these new pick-up customers expects an overall level of comfort, handling, noise and vibration similar to the levels found in passenger cars. One possible conclusion of this trend is that an optimized vehicle system integration is vital to prevent potential issues and to assure the achievement of customer satisfaction. Among several vehicle systems, the Drivetrain integration deserves the major attention. This paper shares lessons learned on the integration of the manual Transmission, external shifter, mountings, propeller shaft, rear axle and suspension with the rest of the vehicle.

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview about rowing clunk on RWD MT transmissions for pick-up trucks through means of sound pressure, case acceleration and torsional vibration. Intended to identify the proper synchronizer design features necessary for its prevention. This paper will introduce the rowing clunk phenomena and present the driving maneuvers executed to reproduce the noise. The process of analysis and the phenomena composition based on simulations results, noise measurements and vibration analysis. The objective is to share with Product Engineering community an approach for Rowing Clunk Noise mitigation on Pick-up Trucks.