1. Identify five (5) important items of personal safety when working on final drive assemblies in an automotive workplace?

2. What are the precautions that you should be aware of when handling final drive oil?

3. How should waste final drive assembly oils be stored and disposed?

4. When handling, trapping, storing and disposing of new or waste final drive oils, which document should you use to find this information.

5. What are hypoid gears and why are hypoid gears used?

6. Ring and pinion gearsets are normally classified as?

7. Define final drive?

8. Describe the function of a differential?

9. Describe the action of differential side gears when the vehicle is cornering.

10. Describe the four (4) distinct modes the vehicle should be operated in during a road test when diagnosing final drive problems.

11. What two (2) conditions are usually the first symptoms to be noticed when a differential or drive axle shaft problem occurs?

12. Consider the various noises that could originate from the rear-axle assembly, and the faults associated with such noises.

13. Describe how to measure ring and pinion gearset backlash.

14. Explain how pinion bearing preload is set?

15. What can happen if the pinion bearing preload was set incorrectly?

16. Why is it very important that the Job Card is completed correctly?

17. Consider the various post repair checks that you would make during a road test on the final drive assembly?

14. Before repairing a banjo final drive assembly. What five (5) pre-dismantling checks that should be carried out.