{"id":608,"date":"2016-12-25T05:33:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T05:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=608"},"modified":"2022-01-04T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T03:30:08","slug":"free-tech-tips-differential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Free Tech Tips &#8211; differential and the name of the gears inside it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A differential serves the following purposes:<\/p>\n<p>It aims the motor power at the wheels.<br \/>\nIt acts as the final gear reduction in the car.<br \/>\nIt transmits the motor power to the wheels while allowing them to rotate at different speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Why should we allow the wheels to rotate at different speeds? This is because the wheels actually spin at different speeds when turning.<\/p>\n<p>The main drive shaft has a gear which interacts with the diff unit. This gear is also called a pinion gear. The large gear of the diff unit that it interacts with is called a ring gear.<\/p>\n<p>The small gears inside the diff unit are commonly being referred to as spider gears. The spider gears that hold the shaft cup&#8217;s shaft is also called the side gears.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3489\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled1.png 715w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled1-300x234.png 300w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled1-675x526.png 675w, http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/untitled1-480x374.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This third party video is not RC specific but is VERY informative regarding differentials:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Differential | How does it work? : DON&amp;apos;T SUBSCRIBE\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nC6fsNXdcMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A differential serves the following purposes: It aims the motor power at the wheels. It acts as the final gear&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tip-drive-train","category-free-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3490,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/3490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}