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Episode 34 - Automotive Manual Transmission - The Altavista translate of how your car's engine talks to it's Colombian girlfriend, (the wheels.)

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

I had no idea how this actually works so I wanted to see if I could understand it. Visual aids would have been helpful for explaining torque transfer between big and little gears and how the counter shaft gets involved, but hey we live and we learn. I thought finding out what "overdrive," actually means was pretty cool.

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0:00.0

And the Ladies and gentlemen welcome to oral presentations episode 34 manual automotive transmission

0:26.5

the alta vista translate of how your car's engine talks to its Colombian girlfriend

0:31.5

parentheses the wheels.

0:33.3

All right, this is, I don't know how I'm gonna do on this one.

0:38.1

This feels like episode 12, the test where I had to explain electricity, and I was so nervous I took my shirt off for it.

0:45.0

I don't know. I'm going to try to explain this to you guys.

0:49.0

It took me a minute to wrap my head around what's going on here even with moving diagrams I was still

0:56.1

like what the fuck is happening what is this because here here's a thing I I did I did work on cars for a couple of years and I still like to go back to it once I heal up. But I was learning cars from the outside in. I was learning to be a body guy. So my buddy

1:15.8

Fennel got me a job just sweeping up and I didn't even know what the fuck a fender

1:19.2

was or anything like I can't tell you the complete absence of knowledge I had regarding any sort of automotive work once I started pushing that broom over there

1:26.5

But then you started tinkering around and like just I mean you'd hopefully only fucking up everything like once and then you just put that in your back pocket you keep going and as long as you don't quit

1:38.3

You just keep learning things even if it takes a minute you just keep learning it like I remember there's I mean I remember early mistakes like I remember I was I was like I didn't know like there's a type of

1:51.2

Screw called a torque screw and it's not like I had only seen Philip's head and then like I had only seen a straight line and then the cross and then I remember it was only a Volkswagen bug.

2:02.0

I was like taking a liner out of it and they had

2:04.7

screws that are like stars on them and I think I remember leaning over to

2:07.7

Fennel and be like hey they got like theft-proof screws on this thing I don't

2:11.1

and he was like I know those are those are a type of screw man and it's I didn't even know

2:16.5

goes like the clever Hans effect that episode two were like I didn't even know what the

2:20.3

fuck how dumb I looked I had no idea how dumb I looked but it was it was fun

2:24.8

but again I was learning the car from the outside in and like transmission work is

2:30.0

like mechanical that is like even if I became like if I reached my Diablo 2 goal that I was going for of like become a body tech and

2:38.4

build your skill sets in different levels and then you eventually will become a

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