Manual Transmission Friction Damper

General Motors Engineering, 2001-02

Liaison(s): Jeff Rayce
Advisor(s): Ziyad Duron
Students(s): Ricky Lim (TL), Brian Yoxall, Daniel Chin, Hans Meyer, Shannon Kelley

The Clinic team has analyzed a phenomenon dubbed driveline clunk which exists in the transmission of some of GM’s full sized trucks. While this noise issue does not affect the transmission’s life or operation, it is quite detrimental to the consumer’s perception of vehicle quality. The team has performed work that characterized this phenomenon and has constructed a prototype to eliminate it.