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The design of a four-wheel drive vehicle ensures the capacity of transmitting torque from the engine to all four wheels of the vehicle. Structural arrangements of 4WD systems allow realizing the full power potential of the car, its road handling, active car safety. The four-wheel drive car can be abbreviated as 4x4, 4WD, or AWD.

The Viscous Coupling (VC) is the transmission component intended for transmission and leveling of torque from the center drive shaft to the front differential, and on to the front wheels. In contrast to the hydraulic coupling and torque converter, the VC uses a different operating principle: torque is transmitted not through dynamic properties of fluid flow, but thanks to viscous properties of the fluid, which fills the internal space of the VC.