dead axle

The dead axles can still be lifted by the press of a button if needed.

Rear suspension was a dead axle on leaf springs.

If you need to go to a six wheeler the performance is still impressive in 6 x 4 configuration with a trailing dead axle.

Many trucks and trailers use dead axles for strictly load-bearing purposes.

There are two different types of axle setups used, a live and a dead axle.

Because it plays no part in transmitting power to the drive wheels, it is sometimes called a "dead axle".

The rear axle of a front-wheel drive car may be considered a dead axle.

The plan for a mechanically simple car was also evident in the rear suspension, which used a dead axle suspended on leaf springs.

A tag axle is a dead axle situated behind a drive axle.

A dead axle (or hub and bearings) is much less common than the live axle setup used on most mini choppers.

A dead axle, also called lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain but is instead free-rotating.

A dead axle located immediately in front of a drive axle is called a pusher axle.

Several manufacturers offer computer-controlled airlift, so that the dead axles are automatically lowered when the main axle reaches its weight limit.

Each wheel was mounted on ball bearings on a dead axle and was driven by an individual traction motor through gearing.

This locomotive had an interior frame, a two-axle front pivoted bogie and an extra dead axle behind the only drive axle.

Dead axles/lazy axles

Vehicles included buckboards and dead axle wagons, surplus Army ambulances, celerity (or mud) coaches, and the deluxe Concord.

The Quad used Meuhl differentials with half-shafts mounted above the load-bearing dead axles to drive the hubs through hub-reduction gearing.

It carries the same MacPherson strut independent front suspension and a dead axle rear suspension with a Panhard stabilizing rod.

Suspension was by Henry Ford's beloved transverse springs front and rear, with dead axle front and torque tube rear, already seen as outdated when the car was introduced.

Zap Garage Door Opener Model 815-II-SD Dead Axle Steel Sheet Door Operator

Developed primarily for use as a Topol ICBM mobile launcher, the 7912 model is similar in design to the MAZ-547A but has seven axles instead of six, including one dead axle.

The 40/50 hp, 6755 cc car was actuated by a "push-pull" rod and an unusual back axle; the load was further taken by an I-beam dead axle which carried a separate differential unit.

Before World War II, the front wheel drive Citroen Traction Avant (1934) had independent front torsion bar suspension and a flexible trailing dead axle, also sprung by torsion bars.

Also innovative were the torsion bar rear suspension, inspired by the dead axle suspension of the Citroën Traction Avant, and the hydraulic braking system, the first to be used on a BMW car.