Why do we have to think about these angles at all? We wouldn't if the engine, transmission, driveshaft, and pinion all shared the same centerline. As it is, these components are never on the same ...

Let’s face it: drivelines aren’t the sexiest component on a big rig. Heck, they aren’t even visible, unless you crawl under a Class 8 truck and look up underneath at the chassis. You can hear the big ...

Early ideas of universal joints (or U-joints) have dated back thousands of years and seem to originate from multiple sources. However, about a century ago, a young engineering graduate, Clarence W.

A PC based instrument called the Driveline Vibration Analyzer (DVA) has been developed and successfully proven as a field diagnostics tool to analyze driveline torsional vibration for the trucking ...