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DSL 545 - Power Train and Maintenance


Last Date of Approval: Spring 2022

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 22.5
Total Lab Hours: 45
Course Description:
The Power Train and Maintenance course will provide students with the opportunity to learn the correct service procedures when working with clutches, transmissions and final drives components.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: None

Mode(s) of Instruction: Face to face

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: None

Common Course Assessment(s): All assessments are common amongst all course sections

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
  • Know how to perform basic maintenance of ag powertrains.
  • Know how gears work together to transmit power through the powertrain.
  • Understand how planetary gears work.
  • Know the power flow through various transmission designs.
  • Understand the operation of hydraulic clutch packs.Understand basic diagnostics of power shift transmissions.
  • Know how to keep good service records.
  • Know how to identify different types of transmissions
  • Know how to identify different types of clutch
  • Know how to disassemble a transmission
  • Know how to disassemble and replace a clutch
  • Students will learn how to define a 9, 10 and 13 speed transmission
  • Students will identify a 14” and 15” clutch
  • Students will perform a transmission disassembly and re assembly



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