crankcase
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For your mechanic’s future reference, the fuel pump is now inside the crankcase, being driven by the engine balance shaft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026
Any methane left in the engine crankcase and fuel lines is automatically flushed into the atmosphere - and CalMac has yet to establish how much will be released.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2024
The air here smells like crankcase oil — as it has for decades — but there is far less activity now than there was just three years ago, and local communities are feeling the pinch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
One, the Polar Sea, has been idle since a 2010 crankcase explosion.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
There were gummy stains on it, too, like crankcase drainings or old strawberry jam.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
The town was a sleepy German farm community when Horace and John Dodge built a plant to supply Ford with axles, transmissions, steering gears and crankcases.
From Time Magazine Archive
The waste, which runs to 1.1 billion gallons, is the glop that is drained from industrial machinery, buses, trucks and the crankcases of cars at every oil change.
From Time Magazine Archive
Motorists have the stuff poured into the crankcases of their cars, separate from the oil itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hot oil from airplane crankcases is usually forced into air-bathed tubes for cooling.
From Time Magazine Archive
The use of aluminum was not entirely novel at this time, as it had been utilized in many automobile engine parts, particularly crankcases; but its incorporation in this rather uncommon combination represented a bold step.
From The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design by Hobbs, Leonard S.
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