Power Flow - Mitsubishi Eclipse Technical Information Manual

Power Flow

The F5MCl transaxle is a fully synchronized (except
reverse), constant mesh transaxle. "Constant Mesh"
means that all of the forward gears are constantly
in mesh with each other. This eliminates the need
to move gears together for engagement like reverse.
The gears turn whenever the input shaft is supplying
power; however, none of the gears transmits torque
Differential
assembly
POWER TRAIN 1 Manual Transaxle
until a synchronizer is engaged. When the synchro-
nizer engages a speed gear, power is transferred
to the output shaft, then out to the wheels. Power
flows from the input shaft, to the output shaft, across
the appropriate synchronizer, to the differential as-
sembly, then out to the halfshafts.
Input
shaft
Ring gear