How to Use crankshaft in a Sentence

crankshaft

noun

• The crankshaft whipping through the oil in the oil pan causes oil to foam.
  — Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• Add a clutch to the engine crankshaft using set screws in the clutch hub.
  — Harry Sawyers, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2015
• To quell bad vibes, a balance shaft is mounted just above the crankshaft in the M640.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2022
• In 2001, the IRL tried to improve the sound with tweaks, including a new crankshaft.
  — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
• Every crankshaft has a pulley, which is held on by a bolt on the front of the engine.
  — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 28 July 2019
• But a bicycle makes no noise apart from the whir of its crankshaft and the chu-chunk of its derailleurs.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022
• Foam inhibitors: The crankshaft whipping through the oil in the pan causes foaming.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
• The dashboard also features a plaque made from the powder of the ground-up crankshaft from the race-winning GT.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 5 Oct. 2022
• Pistons bop up and down, connecting rods sway their hips, and the crankshaft spins around.
  — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2020
• How about a crankshaft that weighs 3400 pounds—as much as an entire Olds Cutlass?
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2023
• The pistons moving up and down rotate the crankshaft, which (with a few more connections) turns the wheels.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 7 July 2023
• Hanging above the bar, looking for all the world like modern art, are a couple of crankshafts, a nod to the brewery's flagship beer, Krankshaft kolsch.
  — Julia Thiel, Chicago Reader, 25 Jan. 2018
• These include revisions to the valve guides as well as the crankshaft and piston main bearings.
  — Peter Jackson, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2021
• If the oil is too thick, the engine requires more energy to turn the crankshaft, which is partly submerged in a bath of oil.
  — Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics, 31 Aug. 2020
• Connecting rods and pistons are forged, and both crankshaft and camshaft are made from billet steel.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2020
• In cars and motorcycles the engine is, well, the engine: crankshaft, pistons, valves, spark plugs, and so on.
  — Michael Clerizo, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2017
• Each cylinder in a four-stroke engine fires once for every two rotations of the crankshaft.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2017
• To handle the output and 8,250-rpm redline, the crankshaft, pistons and connecting rods are forged.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2020
• Also, if the oil is too thick the engine requires more energy to turn the crankshaft, which is partly submerged in a bath of oil.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
• Also, if the oil is too thick, the engine requires more energy to turn the crankshaft, which is partly submerged in a bath of oil.
  — Paul Weissler, Popular Mechanics, 14 Feb. 2019
• The distributor, fan, valve train, alternator, and oil pumps are driven from the rear of the crankshaft.
  — Car and Driver, 27 Jan. 2023
• Instead, eTorque's point of connection is at the engine's crankshaft.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Sep. 2018
• As a result, there's less charge heating on the induction side, less restriction on the exhaust side, and more power out the crankshaft.
  — Don Sherman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2023
• Without getting too deep in the weeds, a flat-plane crankshaft reduces engine weight and improves airflow.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2021
• The pistons are attached to a connecting rod, which is connected to the crankshaft, which turns the engine and the propellor on your outboard.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 16 Aug. 2023
• But the engine seems tuned for mid-range grunt, and the crankshaft is heavier than the one on the 450R motocross bike, trading some zing-zing throttle response for stall resistance out on the trail.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2019
• But the shortest route is to minimize the duration of the start/stop event itself, so that the engine fires within the first rotation of the engine crankshaft.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
• In addition, the camshaft and crankshaft pulleys, fuel injectors and coil packs prove that this was in fact a working power plant at one point.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Jan. 2023
• A guitar riff would stutter like a crankshaft, then the beat would kick in, and suddenly everything smelled like motor oil and hormones.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2017
• His initial design was for a four-cylinder epicycloidal engine, in which the cylinders as well as the crankshaft rotated.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024