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ASE T3 Exam Practice Questions and Answers 1. The driver of a truck says he hears a grinding noise when the transmission is in neutral and the truck is stopped; but the noise goes away when the clutch pedal is depressed. Which of these could be the cause? A. worn pilot bearing B. worn input ...

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ASE T3 Exam Practice Questions and Answers


1. The driver of a truck says he hears a grinding noise


when the transmission is in neutral and the truck is


stopped; but the noise goes away when the clutch


pedal is depressed. Which of these could be the


cause?


A. worn pilot bearing


B. worn input shaft bearing


C. worn clutch release (throwout) bearing


D. worn auxiliary transmission countershaft bearing - Ans:✔✔-1. The correct answer is B. The noise

occurs only when the input shaft is rotating. The bearing handles the relative motion between shaft and

case and thus works only when the shaft is moving. This occurs when the truck isidling with the clutch

engaged. The noise goes away when the clutch pedal is depressed because the input shaft then stops

turning and the bearing is stationary. The other symptoms would only occur when either the clutch is

engaged or when the transmission is being shifted.

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2. A manual shift transmission slips out of fifth gear. The MOST likely cause of this problem is:


A. a broken detent spring


B. too much shaft and gear spline wear


C. worn countershaft bearings


D. a chipped countershaft drive gear - Ans:✔✔-2. The correct answer is A. The detent ball lightly holds

the gear lever in place when a shift is complete. With a broken spring, there will be no pressure holding

the ball in the detent located in the shift rail. Vibration can easily cause the direct drive (top gear) shift

collar to slide and disengage. Answers B and D would cause grinding when shifting into gear, while

answer C would cause a whining noise.


3. The shift lever on a single countershaft transmission is hard to move. Which of these is the MOST likely

cause?


A. bent shift rails


B. galled sliding clutch gears


C. worn detent springs


D. too much mainshaft gear end-play - Ans:✔✔-3. The correct answer is B. Galled surfaces on the sliding

clutches would make it difficult for them to slide along the shafts and in and out of the gears. Bent shift




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rails and worn detent springs would cause the transmission to slip out of gear. Too much mainshaft gear

end play would cause shifting to be next to impossible and the transmission will exhibit a growling noise.


4. In a transmission that has been taken apart, all of the bearings are excessively worn. Technician A says

the cause could be moisture in the lubricant. Technician B says the cause could be too high an operating


temperature. Who is right?


A. Technician A only


B. Technician B only


C. Both A and B


D. Neither A or B - Ans:✔✔-4. The correct answer is C, both technicians are right. Bearing wear often

occurs when the viscosity of the gear lube is too low. Water dilutes the gear lube, thereby thinning it.

Heat also thins the gear lube by breaking it down chemically.


5. A truck with a high-torque, low-rpm engine exhibits a great deal of gear noise, as well as wear of the

splines on various drivetrain parts. The truck uses a rigid disc clutch. All the U-joint angles are

acceptable. The MOST likely cause of this problem is that the


A Driver abuses the clutch by releasing it too rapidly


B. Engine produces torsional vibration, which should be removed from the drivetrain by using a

dampened disc clutch.


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C. Engine mounts are worn.


D. Engine rating is such that the transmission requires the use of an oil cooler. - Ans:✔✔-5. The correct

answer is B. A rigid clutch cannot dampen the severe vibrations produced by modern high torque

diesels. The only other source of the kind of vibration torque that would cause such damage would be

misaligned driveshafts, and they have been found to be OK.


6. A truck fleet presently uses transmissions with an overdrive top gear ratio. It wishes to convert its

trucks to the use of direct-drive transmissions. In order to get approximately the same number of engine

revolutions per mile in top gear, the company would have to:


A convert the gearing in its rear axles to a higher (numerical) ratio


B. convert the gearing in its rear axles to a lower (numerical) ratio


C. it need not convert (the same rear axle ratio will produce the same engine revolutions per mile)


D. convert to lower-profile tires (which would turn more revolutions per mile) - Ans:✔✔-6. The correct

answer is B. On vehicles with overdrive. the engine turns more slowly than the transmission out put

shaft and the driveshafts at any given speed. With a direct drive transmission, the engine must turn at

the same speed as the driveshafts-in other words, with the same axle, faster. A numerically lower axle,

requiring fewer revolutions of the driveshafts, would be the only means of bringing the required rpm of

engine and drive shafts back down.




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