How to Use pushrod in a Sentence

pushrod

noun

• The too-cool fork caps, the black spoked wheels, the two rear frame hoops, the black forks, the polished pushrod tubes atop the cylinders, even the turn signals have panache.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The left wing aileron trim tab remained intact and its pushrod was connected but bent.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Oct. 2019
• The pushrod connecting the brake pedal to the master cylinder is adjustable.
  — Bob Weber Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Mar. 2021
• In this case, Tarver was standing near the pipeline using a pushrod to manually move the pig.
  — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 20 July 2021
• Nor drinking, either: the 6.2-liter pushrod V8 is fitted with dual fuel systems to pump more gas into the cylinders in extremis.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• The official images make clear a very low ride height—just 3.7 inches of ground clearance—with motorsport-style pushrod suspension.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 13 Mar. 2020
• Without pushrods in the way, an engineer making an OHC engine can also configure its ports for better airflow.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2019
• Motivating this new model is General Motors' sweetheart of a 6.2-liter pushrod V-8.
  — David Beard, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2022
• Although the engine remains a cam-in-block pushrod design, the cam is now fitted with a hydraulic timing phaser so that intake and exhaust valve opening and closing duration can be changed to improve performance.
  — Ben Wojdyla, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2012
• This is a pushrod unit, a configuration well known to Hennessey's tuning operations, chosen for its compact dimensions and lower center of gravity.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2020
• Mustang—derived from an existing car platform, unlike the Corvair's custom one—fostered the GM brass's pre-existing predilection for pushing cheap, unsophisticated pushrod V-8s.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 30 Sep. 2022

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