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  • ...fts have different length and excessive torque is applied, the longer half shaft flexes more than the shorter one, thus causing one wheel to momentarily spi
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  • ...and molten white metal poured into the cavity around the shaft, initially half filling the pillow block. The bearing is stripped, and the white metal trim ...f the lower bearing and to space the cap of the pillow block away from the shaft. After resealing the ends with clay, more white metal is then poured to fil
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  • An '''axle''' is a central shaft for a [[rotation|rotating]] [[wheel]] or [[gear]]. In some cases the axle A straight axle is a single rigid shaft connecting a wheel on the left side of the vehicle to a wheel on the right
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  • ...right|175px|Rotor. This rotates at the same speed as the [[camshaft]], one half the speed of the [[crankshaft]]]] ...or ''[[rotor]]'' inside the [[distributor cap]], on top of the distributor shaft. The rotor contacts the central high voltage cable from the coil via a spri
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  • ...ankshaft RPM. See [[gear ratio]]. (The small gear left is on the [[balance shaft]])]] ...In a [[four-stroke cycle|four-stroke engine]], the valves are opened only half as often; thus, two full rotations of the crankshaft occur for each rotatio
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  • ** Parking Mechanical tape, on '[[tree (mechanical) | transmission shaft]] [[Image: Scansione0009.jpg | 250px | thumb]] * [[Steering]]: a worm with vibration damper on shaft
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  • ...of useful output device. Typically, the [[rotation]]al speed of an input shaft is changed, resulting in a different output speed. However, some of the si ...duce an unsuitable high speed and low [[torque]] of the prime mover output shaft to a more useable lower speed with higher torque, or do the opposite and pr
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  • ...hed in by this air pressure it means that the engine will normally produce half-power at full throttle at this altitude. ...e airframe is quite aware of the halved air density and the plane thus has half the [[Drag equation|drag]]. For this reason supercharged planes fly much fa
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  • ...alled "rollers" tightly fill the space between the shaft and hole. As the shaft turns, each roller acts as the logs in the above example. However, since t ...to the shaft) and [[axial]] loads ([[parallel (geometry)|parallel]] to the shaft). For lightly-loaded bearings, balls offer lower friction than rollers. B
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  • ..., usually a disk shape on the end of a shaft also called a valve stem. The shaft guides the plug portion by sliding through a [[valve guide]]. In most appli ...fixed [[camshaft]] which is then geared to the [[crankshaft]], running at half crankshaft speed in a [[four stroke cycle|four-stroke]] engine. On high per
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  • ...i's integrated braking system has thankfully been left out, as well as the shaft effect. Only its chassis pitching caused by the crankshaft's rotating mass ...be reckoned with. Ride this machine and you might indeed become half man, half iron-horse. Set your imagination free and watch reality disappear in the mi
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  • ...gine. The inlet is coloured green and the outlet purple. Notice the bottom shaft contra-rotating with respect to the other two; the lag between the exhaust ...ner. The crankshafts were connected with phasing gears to drive one output shaft. Various models of Deltic engine could be produced with varying numbers of
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  • ...evelgear.jpg|thumb|[[Bevel gear|Bevel ring gear]] on the rear wheel of a [[shaft-driven bicycle]]]] ...crankset and the rear cog or sprocket. or the ratio of bevel gears on a [[shaft-driven bicycle]]. In the case of a derailleur-equipped bicycle, this sprock
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  • ...or to manually synchronize engine crank-shaft revolutions (RPM) with drive-shaft revolutions is non-synchronous. ...few inches off the floor. In order to shift into gear, the clutch must be half way off the floor, otherwise the clutch brake will prevent the transmission
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  • * Steering radius - As no complicated drive shaft joints are required at the front wheels, it is possible to turn them furthe ...eg room for center rear passengers (due to the tunnel needed for the drive shaft), and sometimes less trunk space (since there is also more hardware that mu
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  • ...[[crank pin]] on the crankshaft, and thus each will reach top dead center half a crankshaft revolution after the other. Flat engines with more than eight ...alanced forces with a [[four-stroke cycle]] and do not require a [[balance shaft]] or counterweights on the [[crankshaft]] to balance the weight of the reci
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  • ...gine. The inlet is coloured green and the outlet purple. Notice the bottom shaft contra-rotating with regard to the other 2 shafts, the lag between the exha ...crankshafts were connected together with phasing gears to drive one output shaft. Various models of Deltic engine could be produced with varying numbers of
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  • ...A" marks one of the three apexes of the rotor. The "B" marks the eccentric shaft, turning three times for every revolution of the rotor.]] ...ree times the rotor speed, this becomes one combustion 'stroke' per output shaft revolution per rotor, twice as many as the four-stroke piston engine, and s
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  • ...mesh transmission. For racing of production based transmissions, sometimes half the dogs on the synchros are removed to speed the shifting process, at the ...lways in mesh but only one of these meshed pairs of gears is locked to the shaft on which it is mounted at any one time, the others being allowed to rotate
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  • ...es this particular configuration. It allows the use of equal-length [[half shaft]]s and the easy addition of [[all-wheel drive]], but has the distinct disad ...oints of a rear wheel drive car regularly see angles and wear of less than half that of front wheel drive vehicles.
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  • ...h that the average for the two output shafts is equal to that of the input shaft. Each powered axle requires a differential to distribute power between the ...havior. It can also waste fuel, because it requires that there be a slight shaft speed difference under normal driving conditions (via gearing) to prepare t
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  • ...pin Starting''' - This was introduced in [[1961]] as a means of cutting in half the effort of manually starting an engine. This had replaced all means of s ...[[1968]], for their [[cast iron]] engine models, expanding it to vertical shaft engines powering lawn mowers in late [[1976]] before the setup came full ci
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  • ...s this particular configuration. It allows the use of equal-length [[half shaft]]s and the easy addition of [[all wheel drive]]. ...oints of a rear wheel drive car regularly see angles and wear of less than half that of front wheel drive vehicles.
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  • ...eg room for center rear passengers (due to the tunnel needed for the drive shaft), and sometimes less trunk space (since there is also more hardware that mu ...metal to form the transmission tunnel. There is a rear [[axle]] or rear [[half-shafts]]. A rear wheel drive car will weigh slightly more than a comparabl
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  • A 1.5-way notch is like an upside down triangle with a half triangle on top of it. During acceleration it will expand the casing at one ...ed slip differentials utilize [[planetary gear]]s to "sense" torque on one shaft. The most famous version is the [[Torsen]] differential invented by Vernon
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  • ...fineon Raceway|Sonoma]]) and finished 10th in points despite only starting half the races. In the second race of the season at St. Petersburg, FL, Marco snapped a half-shaft on the #26 Gillette Fusion trying to leave the pits. This was his first DNF
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  • ...the centrifugal oil filter, pity that it is mounted in front to the crank shaft so to oblige to remove the head, cilinder, flywheel and frontal case engine ...special alloy castle with conic couple that rend the machine over head cam shaft. Because the model was destined for the racing, the various changing do har
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  • ...750 Imola Desmo]] that won at Imola in 1972. These engines had bevel gear shaft drive to the overhead camshaft, and were produced in round, square, and Mil ...g crank, [[Ducati V-twin motorcycles#Bevel gear driven valves|bevel geared shaft drive camshaft engines]], he had gone from making complex engines to making
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  • ...s the push rod out, moving the slack adjuster, thus twisting the brake cam shaft. This turns the S-cam. The S-cam forces the brake shoes away from one anoth ...If the vehicle has a dual air brake system, there will be a gauge for each half of the system or, sometimes, a single gauge with two needles. Dual systems
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  • ...zed Bandini Offenhauser of 1625 cc [[engine capacity]] held for a year and half of the track record of Thompson in class up to 2000 cc ** Parking Mechanical tape, on [[tree (mechanical) | transmission shaft]]
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  • ...nbsp;lb (270 kg) dry. Taglioni dismissed the Berliners’ suggestion of shaft drive, and chose chain final drive. The police specification stipulated 16& scheduled for the United States are planned for the second half of 1965. The price in the USA will be approximately $1500.|Berliners Motor
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  • ...primary and secondary [[engine balance|balance]] and require no [[balance shaft]]. ...chanically simpler than a V6 or V8. It has only one [[cylinder head]] and half as many [[camshafts]] as a V engine.
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  • ...e, which is the volume displaced during a single rotation of the eccentric shaft. In cars, engines over 8 litres displacement are extremely rare in the last half-century and most modern cars utilise engines much smaller than that: in the
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  • ...h that the average for the two output shafts is equal to that of the input shaft. Each powered axle requires a differential to distribute power between the ...ous coupling unit acts like a solid when under shear stress caused by high shaft speed differences, causing the two shafts to become connected. This design
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  • ...eg room for center rear passengers (due to the tunnel needed for the drive shaft), and sometimes less trunk space (since there is also more hardware that mu ...metal to form the transmission tunnel. There is a rear [[axle]] or rear [[half-shafts]]. A rear wheel drive car will weigh slightly more than a comparabl
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  • ...itted with wishbones and [[coil spring]]s at the front and a live axle and half-elliptic springs at the rear. Its excellent handling and good performance w ...d [[Concord (auto manufacturer)|Concord]] in [[Argentina]]. Over two and a half million were eventually produced.
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  • ...better weight distribution, the engine is actually 'backwards'; the output shaft is at the front, and the gearbox is in front of the engine, the driveshaft Substantially more than half were built in the final five years of production, as Lamborghini's new corp
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  • ...ing the clutches, the gear ratio from MG2 (the "drive" motor) to the wheel shaft is switched, either for higher torque or higher speed (up to 250 km/h / 155 ...peration with only a single power split device (incorporated as a single 3 shaft planetary gearset) is a typical example which can also be called Input-Spli
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  • ...change at four forward gears and reverse, brakes on rear wheels and motor shaft. The [[Ceirano]] also built a four-cylinder type, 16-20 HP, as telling the ...a town in southern England, there was a rise particularly famous for being half of the most prominent gentlemen drivers, who tries his hand in his bid seve
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  • ...better weight distribution, the engine is actually 'backwards'; the output shaft is at the front, and the gearbox is in front of the engine, the driveshaft Substantially more than half were built in the final five years of production, as Lamborghini's new corp
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  • ...dvanced part (in [[aluminum]]) with the bilanceri and the relative starter shaft (the axis to cams centers them wheel between the two heads). ...a advanced part (in aluminum) with the bilanceri and the relative starter shaft (the camshaft, centers them, wheel between the two heads); crankshaft on 5
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  • ...cardanico|cardano joint]], to seams); the posterior extremity of the drive shaft is flowing in the pinion of the conical group of differentiates them. ...ena comes constructed in 1520 exemplary and will be replaced in the second half of the' 33 from one new series, third, characterized from more meaningful d
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  • ...the race was stopped. (This would have unfortunate consequences for Prost. Half points for a win was less than full points for the second place he would ha ...there was no time to manufacture a shortened steering shaft. The existing shaft was instead cut, shortened, and welded back together with reinforcing plate
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  • ...ike with exposed trellis and engine. Today the Monster accounts for almost half of the company's worldwide sales. The Monster, which has been out since 199 ...n was used on many of Ducati's older [[single cylinder]] motorcycles - the shaft tube is visible on the outside of the cylinder.
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  • One characteristic interesting é given from the drive shaft with snodati and elastic joints to cylindrical ear-ring joints (inside in r ...in in production until 1953 and that will be placed side by side, from the half of 1948, from the version “van”. <br>
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  • ...h that the average for the two output shafts is equal to that of the input shaft. Each powered axle requires a differential to distribute power between the ...loss. In the viscous coupling differentials, the [[shear stress]] of high shaft speed differences causes a [[dilatant]] fluid in the differential to become
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  • ...y]]. A computer oversees operation of the entire system, determining which half should be running, or if both should be in use, shutting off the internal c ...peration with only a single power split device (incorporated as a single 3 shaft planetary gearset) is more generically called Input-Split Hybrid, due to th
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  • ....500 [[Lira to italiana|Lire]], while the Balilla costs little more of the half (10,800 Liras). ...l) |Trasmissione]] ||trazione on the posterior wheels; only, tubular drive shaft, supplied of flexible joints to disc to the extremities; device of “inser
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  • ...rbits in an [[epitrochoid]]al (figure 8 shape) chamber around an eccentric shaft. The four phases of operation (intake, compression, power, exhaust) take pl *[http://omcea.be/article-51,49320,,Firing,on,Half,Cylinders.html Firing on Half Cylinders] - from V8 to V4
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  • ...dt]], dominated the championship until he was killed at Monza when a brake shaft broke. He took the {{F1|1970}} title posthumously for Lotus. 1970 saw the i ...that it came at the rain-shortened Grand Prix of Monaco, which resulted in half points, too. Prost won that race, but rookie [[Ayrton Senna]] made the stro
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