bearing and thrust bearing the tapered roller bearing and thrust bearing each may include only a single race application_number US 9293002 A description 0013 fig1 shows a longitudinal cross sectional view of a five speed transmission 10 which receives power from an engine 12 and transfers this power through a differential 14 to left and right axles 16 18 of a vehicle by way of example with the transmission in the first forward speed setting the engine 12 drives the torque converter 20 which drives the input shaft 22 the input shaft is welded to the third clutch housing 24 which is splined to the third clutch backing plate 26 which rotates the input sun gear 28 the input sun gear 28 rotates input planetary gear 30 which rotates the input ring gear 32 the input ring gear 32 is splined to the second clutch hub 34 the second clutch hub 34 drives the output sun gear 36 which is welded to the second clutch hub 34 this structure is more readily seen in fig2 the output sun gear 36 drives the output pinion gears 38 which drive the output ring gear 40 the output ring gear 40 is connected to the transfer gear 42 which transfers torque and speed to the second shaft 44 via the second transfer gear 46 the term u201c transfer gear u201d may be used interchangeably with u201c transfer pinion u201d or u201c transfer pinion gear u201d still referring to fig2 a snap ring 48 secures the output ring gear 40 to the transfer gear 42 the present invention is particularly characterized by the structure which rotationally supports and preloads the transfer gear 42 and.