Geartrain

Geartrain
Planetary Gearset
The transaxle has two planetary gearsets to provide operation in reverse and four forward speeds. A front sun gear, front carrier, rear ring gear, front ring gear/rear carrier and a rear sun gear are the main components of the planetary gear set.

Turbine Shaft
The turbine shaft is splined to both the torque converter stator and the DRIVE sprocket. This allows input torque to be transmitted from the torque converter to the transaxle.

Idler Gear
The idler gear is driven by the output shaft and is attached to the reduction gear. The reduction gear drives the final DRIVE ring gears, which are part of the differential. The idler gear also provides a gear for the parking pawl to lock the final DRIVE from rotating.

Reduction Gear
The reduction gear connects the output shaft to the final DRIVE ring gear and provides gear reduction.

Differential Assembly
The differential assembly drives the front wheel driveshaft and joints and allows the front wheel driveshaft and joints to turn at different speeds.