Propshafts

GKN Automotive’s unique capability and innovative lead in crash-optimised propshafts ensure a safer and more comfortable driving experience.
Strength, stiffness, precision balance and low mass are the essential properties of propshafts in ensuring durability and minimum levels of Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH). Shaft joints and couplings for propshafts also have to accommodate severe service loads, high angles and apparent changes in path length, due to relative displacement between axles and the gearbox in passenger cars, and the high ‘shock’ loads commonplace in all-terrain vehicles.