General Information: Notes

The rear axle has the following features.

• The wheel bearing is a unit ball bearing (dou-ble-row angular contact ball bearing) which incor-porates the oil seals and is highly resistant to a thrust load.
• The number of parts has been reduced by inte-grating the magnetic encoder for ABS wheel speed detection into the wheel bearing.
• Inboard joint on the differential side and outboard joint on the hub side constant velocity joints are featured in the driveshaft.
• Adoption of the electronic control AWD optimizes the size of the driveshaft constant velocity joint and achieves the weight saving.
• Lead-free grease for the constant velocity joint has been adopted.
• Hexavalent chromium has been eliminated from the dust cover material.
• The electronic control coupling installed in front of the differential, which transfers the drive force to the rear wheels by pushing the clutch in accord-ing to the strength of the magnetic attraction gen-erated by the magnetic coil (For more details, refer to Electronic Control AWD).
• Aluminum differential carrier is used for weight saving.
• Optimization of the hypoid gear ratio reduces the torque loss.
• Adoption of the hypoid gear with the same teeth height realizes the downsizing and increases the strength of the coupling.