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• Torque steering
  ...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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• Babbitt metal
  ...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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• Axle
  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
  5 KB (844 words) - 11:37, 14 June 2009
• Distributor
  ...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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• Camshaft
  ...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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• Bandini 750 sport internazionale
  ** 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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• Transmission
  ...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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• Supercharger
  ...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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• Roller bearing
  ...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
  13 KB (2,121 words) - 07:16, 6 July 2009
• Poppet valve
  ..., 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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• V10 Centauro
  ...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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• Napier Deltic
  ...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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• Bicycle gearing
  ...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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• Non-synchronous transmission
  ...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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• RWD
  * 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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• Flat engine
  ...[[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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• Delta engine
  ...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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• Wankel engine
  ...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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• Manual transmission
  ...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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• Front-wheel drive
  ...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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