Sentence examples for crankcase from inspiring English sources

A simplified version of the two-stroke-cycle engine was developed some years later (introduced in 1891) by using crankcase compression to pump the fresh charge into the cylinder.

The inlet ports connect to a transfer passage leading to the fully enclosed crankcase.

A spring-loaded inlet valve admits air into the crankcase on the upward, or compression, stroke of the piston.

Most Allied fighters at that time were powered by rotary radial engines (i.e., with the cylinders, arranged radially about the crankcase like the spokes of a wheel, rotating around a stationary crankshaft).

There are three main sources of these gases: the engine exhaust, the crankcase, and the fuel tank and carburetor.

The crankcase is formed by the portion of the cylinder block below the cylinder bores and the stamped or cast metal oil pan that forms the lower enclosure of the engine and also serves as a lubricating oil reservoir, or sump.

Lubricating oil is added to gasoline used in crankcase-compression two-stroke-cycle engines.

Large, stationary power-plant engines and marine engines are built up from a foundation, or bedplate, and have upper and lower crankcases that are separate from the cylinder assemblies.

— Chris, NYC A huge mountain of rusting automobile crankcases.

Or take a tour of the sprawling Untert?eim plant, where some 4,600 precision-machined engines are assembled every day -- in a churning machine-age ballet of crankshafts, pistons and silvery crankcases destined for the automaker's coveted prows.

In the crankcase the portion of the engine block below the cylinders where the crankshaft is located leaked combustion gases are combined with ventilating air and returned to the intake manifold for reburning in the combustion chamber.