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  2. Freewheel - Wikipedia

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    Citroën combined a freewheel and a centrifugal clutch to make the so-called 'TraffiClutch', which let the driver start, stop, and change the lower gears without using the clutch. This was an option on Citroën 2CVs and its derivatives and, as the name implied, was marketed as a benefit for driving in congested urban areas.

  3. Parking pawl - Wikipedia

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    The parking pawl locks the transmission's output shaft to the transmission casing by engaging a pawl (a pin) that engages in a notched wheel on the shaft, stopping it (and thus the driven wheels) from rotating. The main components of a parking pawl mechanism are the parking gear, parking pawl, actuator rod, cam collar, cam plate, pivot pin, and ...

  4. Torque tube - Wikipedia

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    The torque moving the wheels and axles in a forward direction is met with an "equal and opposite" reaction of the axle housing and differential, making the differential want to spin in a reverse direction, in the same way that a cyclist "pops a wheelie", lifting the bicycle in the air in the opposite direction from the turn of the wheel.

  5. Hot Wheels - Wikipedia

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    Forza Horizon 4 Hot Wheels Legends Car Pack (2021) DLC for Xbox One and Microsoft Windows. Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels (2022), is a DLC pack for Forza Horizon 5 (2021) similar to Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels (2016). The expansion was released on Microsoft Windows 11, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. The expansion pack has added many assets to the ...

  6. Hot Wheels (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Hot Wheels is an American animated television series broadcast on ABC from 1969 to 1971, under the primary sponsorship of Mattel Toys. [1] The show took pains to stress that it was "pro-safety", contrasting the safe and responsible behavior of the series' racing-club protagonists with the reckless behavior of their rivals.

  7. Electromagnetically induced acoustic noise - Wikipedia

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    The hissing of high voltage transmission lines is due to corona discharge, not magnetism. The phenomenon is also called audible magnetic noise, [ 1 ] electromagnetic acoustic noise, lamination vibration [ 2 ] or electromagnetically induced acoustic noise, [ 3 ] or more rarely, electrical noise, [ 4 ] or "coil noise", depending on the application.

  8. Diesel engine runaway - Wikipedia

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    Engines fitted with a decompressor can also be stopped by operating the decompressor, and in a vehicle with a manual transmission it is sometimes possible to stop the engine by engaging a high gear (i.e. 4th, 5th, 6th etc.), with foot brake and parking brake fully applied, and quickly letting out the clutch to slow the engine RPM to a stop ...

  9. Live-line working - Wikipedia

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    A lineman wearing equipment for hot glove work. In electrical engineering, live-line working, also known as hotline maintenance, is the maintenance of electrical equipment, often operating at high voltage, while the equipment is energised.