The mechanics of a truck's driveline also explain the industry's preference for rear-wheel drive. The driveline includes the clutch, axle, yoke, driveshaft, universal joints, and differential ...

Rear-wheel-drive vehicles have universal joints (or U-joints) at both ends of the drive shaft. U-joints connect to yokes that also allow drive shafts to move fore and aft as vehicles go over bumps ...

On four-wheel-drive vehicles, the transfer case contains gears that connect a second drive shaft to send power to all four wheels instead of just the front or rear ones. The transfer case on some ...

On a whim, we shifted the transfer case into rear-wheel drive and ran two more tests. First thing, there's wheelspin to manage, on account of the system's combined 465 pound-feet of torque being ...