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• Straight-twin
  ...gine uses a common [[crank pin]] for both cylinders; engines with separate crank pins for each cylinder are more properly called inline or straight two cyli Most of the British [[four-stroke cycle]] straight two cylinder engines had a crank angle of 360°, which means that both pistons have to be in the same positi
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• Flat-12
  ...crank pin per piston while in the 180° V engine two pistons share the same crank pin. With twelve cylinders both layouts are perfectly balanced.
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• Crankshaft
  The '''crankshaft''', sometimes casually abbreviated to ''crank'', is that part of an [[engine]] which translates [[reciprocate|reciprocati ...g connecting rods attach side by side to the same crank throw, simplifying crank design.
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• Straight-2
  Most of the British [[four-stroke cycle]] straight-twin engines had a crank angle of 360°, which means that both pistons have to be in the same positi ...orcycles, with the exception of [[Yamaha Motor Corporation|Yamaha]], use a crank angle of 180°. This leads to fewer vibrations but uneven firing. The engin
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• Engine configuration
  ...e the most common forms are all based on a combined [[engine block]] and [[crank case]] that are [[milled]] from a single piece of [[casting|cast]] metal. T ** [[V engine]], with two banks of cylinders sharing a single crank case.
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• Bulleri
  ...an area separate from the two chambers of lateral tendons that turned the crank at 180 degrees. The exchange, located around the [[crankshaft]] and a three
  1 KB (152 words) - 09:18, 18 June 2009
• V-twin
  ...ore the "twin" nomenclature. Two cylinder, V shaped engines with separate crank pins for each cylinder are more properly called "V-2" engines, however, pro
  3 KB (506 words) - 15:24, 15 July 2009
• Automobile self starter
  ...cranks had an overrun mechanism to prevent it, when the engine started, a crank could begin to spin along with the crankshaft. The operator had to pull aw ...his automobile impelled engineer [[Charles Kettering]] to replace the hand crank with an electric starter. He modified Coleman's design and made it practic
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• Connecting rod
  ...], the '''connecting rod''' or '''conrod''' connects the [[piston]] to the crank or [[crankshaft]]. ...gn. The '''big end''' connects to the bearing journal on the [[crankshaft|crank throw]], running on replaceable [[plain bearing|bearing]] shells accessible
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• Aprilia RXV
  | Power || Manufacturer's claim at the crank: 60 hp for the RXV/SXV 4.5, 70 hp for the RXV/SXV 5.5. Rear wheel power mea ...e the 5.5 produces a claimed 70. Unfortunantly, horsepower measured at the crank is of little use to the average rider; horsepower measurements are much mor
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• Cam
  ...reciprocating motion to circular motion, is done by a [[Crank (mechanism)|crank]]. An example is the [[crankshaft]] of a car, which takes the reciprocating
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• Top dead center
  ...f [[machine press]]es, [[steam locomotive]]s, and other [[steam engines]]. Crank-driven machines rely on the energy stored in a [[flywheel]] to overcome the ...]]s normally have two [[Cylinder (steam locomotive)|cylinders]] with the [[Crank (mechanism)|cranks]] set at [[right angle]]s so one [[piston]] will always
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• Opposed piston engine
  5 outlet crank mechanism<br> 6 inlet crank mechanism (runs app. 20° past the outlet to achieve an asymmetric control
  6 KB (1,020 words) - 07:50, 14 July 2009
• V engine
  ...example divide [[flat engine]]s into [[boxer engine]]s which do not share crank pins in this way, and 180° engines which do. On the other hand, some impor
  3 KB (481 words) - 09:27, 10 November 2009
• Guaraldi
  ...ination version, because the passenger sidecar was connected by means of a crank and a chain, becoming an auxiliary motor, if the bike had difficulties in o
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• Flat engine
  ...Some authorities divide flat engines into boxer engines which do not share crank pins in this way, and [[flat engine#180° V-engines|180° engines]] which d * The 180° [[V engine]], in which corresponding pistons share a [[crank pin]] on the crankshaft, and thus each will reach top dead center half a cr
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• Flat-twin
  ...are not truly in line but displaced by the width of one crank pin and one crank-shaft web.''']]
  4 KB (576 words) - 12:50, 11 May 2010
• Straight-8
  ...wed another weakness of the design: there were slight torsions of the long crank and the long camshafts, limiting the development of such engines. [[ALFA Ro
  2 KB (352 words) - 17:22, 13 June 2009
• Cylinder
  ...tion of the [[crankshaft]] via connecting rods attached to the pistons and crank.
  3 KB (441 words) - 19:45, 31 March 2009
• Cylinder (engine)
  ...tion of the [[crankshaft]] via connecting rods attached to the pistons and crank.
  3 KB (492 words) - 00:06, 8 August 2009

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