A crankcase is the housing in a piston engine that surrounds the crankshaft. In most modern engines, the crankcase is integrated into the engine block...
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A crankcase ventilation system (CVS) removes unwanted gases from the crankcase of an internal combustion engine. The system usually consists of a tube...
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A crankcase heater is an electrical component in a compressor in an air-conditioning system, heat pump system, or chiller system. The crankcase heater...
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Look up crankcase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A crankcase is the housing for the crankshaft of an engine. Crankcase can also mean: Crankcase (G.I...
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Two-stroke engine (redirect from Crankcase-compression two-stroke petrol engine)
most later two-stroke engines, his had a separate charging cylinder. The crankcase-scavenged engine, employing the area below the piston as a charging pump...
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Engine block (section Crankcase)
the cylinder block, to which a separate crankcase was attached. Modern engine blocks typically have the crankcase integrated with the cylinder block as...
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A tunnel crankcase, tunnel crankshaft or disc-webbed crankshaft is a design feature of a piston engine where the main bearings that support the crankshaft...
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Crankcase dilution is a phenomenon of internal combustion engines in which unburned diesel or gasoline accumulates in the crankcase. Excessively rich...
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out of the crankcase so that it does not accumulate contaminating the oil and creating corrosion. In two-stroke gasoline engines the crankcase is part of...
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Monobloc engine (section Crankcase)
of whose major components (such as cylinder head, cylinder block, or crankcase) are formed, usually by casting, as a single integral unit, rather than...
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Mercedes-Benz OM 138 (section Crankcase)
camshaft. The lower and upper crankcase parts are connected with pin screws on the horizontal crankshaft centre. The lower crankcase part is strengthened with...
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separate cooling circuits for the cylinder head and crankcase. For weight savings, the crankcase wall thickness and forged crankshaft were optimized,...
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engine's crankshaft remained stationary in operation, while the entire crankcase and its attached cylinders rotated around it as a unit. Its main application...
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within the crankcase, oil circulation and leakages. While aftermarket firms such as S&S Cycle previously responded with stronger crankcase components...
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Oil catch tank (section Positive crankcase ventilation)
oil catch tank or oil catch can is a device that is fitted into the cam/crankcase ventilation system on a car. Installing an oil catch can aims to reduce...
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of an inline engine include a poor power-to-weight ratio, because the crankcase and crankshaft are long and thus heavy. An in-line engine may be either...
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optionally be designed to keep the engine's crankcase at lower than atmospheric pressure (vacuum), by sealing the crankcase and allowing the scavenge pumps to...
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piston engines, a wet sump is part of a lubrication system whereby the crankcase sump is used as an integral oil reservoir. An alternative system is the...
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1 cc (20.33 cu in) cylinder, compression ratio: 10.5:1 cylinder block & crankcase cast aluminium alloy; four main bearings, die-forged steel crankshaft...
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88:1 – under-square/long-stroke, 399.4 cc per cylinder cylinder block & crankcase cast aluminium alloy; four main bearings, die-forged steel crossplane...
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combustion chamber, this air/fuel/oil mixture passes through the engine's crankcase, lubricating the moving parts as it does so. In order to reduce exhaust...
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differences like oil feed and return holes for the turbo and different crankcase ventilation system, valve cover and plastic engine cover. Wikimedia Commons...
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Flat-twin engine (section Crankcase pressure)
This crankcase pumping effect (also found on single-cylinder engines and 360° parallel-twin engines) is usually addressed by means of a crankcase breather...
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lubrication, as required by their high speed. This often used an enclosed crankcase with an oil sump and lubrication by 'splash' or by ring oilers. Some went...
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rotating assembly Balance shaft Block heater Bore Connecting rod Crankcase Crankcase ventilation system (PCV valve) Crankpin Crankshaft Core plug (freeze...
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to equip the first 250 Tiger I tanks built, and which had an aluminium crankcase and block. The earlier HL210 engine had a displacement of 21.353 L (1...
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for use in crankcase compression two-stroke engines, typical of small gasoline-powered engines. Unlike a four-stroke engine, the crankcase of which is...
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variety of different factors. Some of the most common causes are: Defective crankcase ventilation system Oil/coolant contamination Neglecting oil changes Low...
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6-speed manual transmission. The Turbo, GT2 and GT3 models use the Aluminum crankcase of the air-cooled 911 with its true dry sump oiling system. The six separate...
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configuration in which the cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. It resembles a stylized star when viewed from...
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