1) GI Joe character 2) Crotchety engine feature 3) Dipstick housing 4) Engine block component 5) Engine housing 6) Engine technology 7) Fictional driver 8) Housing 9) Housing for a crankshaft 10) Housing under the hood 11) Part of an engine 12) Trial of a grouch 13) What gets the shaft
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In an internal combustion engine of the reciprocating type, the crankcase is the housing for the crankshaft. The enclosure forms the largest cavity in the engine and is located below the cylinder(s), which in a multicylinder engine are usually integrated into one or several cylinder blocks. Crankcases have often been discrete parts, but more often...
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[Transformers] Crankcase is the name of several characters in the various Transformers universes. ==Transformers: Generation 1== Crankcase is a wheezing, whining ingrate, only happy when things are bad. He also has an amazing data storage capacity. He is armed with two laser weapons. ===Marvel Comics=== Crankcase first appeared in issue #48...
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(from the article `gasoline engine`) A simplified version of the two-stroke-cycle engine was developed some years later (introduced in 1891) by using crankcase compression to pump the ... ...The cylinder block of an automobile engine is a casting with appropriate machined surfaces and threaded holes for attaching the cylinder head, ... ...
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castings that support and contain the crankshaft, primary drive and gearbox.
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n] - housing for a crankshaft
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The middle part of the engine structure surrounding the working parts. See also: Crankshaft, Internal Combustion Engine.
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noun housing for a crankshaft
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A case that encloses the crankshaft. In most engines, the oil pan and the lower portion of the cylinder block form the crankcase.
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The area inside the engine block where the crankshaft, piston rods and other moving parts operate and receive continuous lubrication.
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(in an internal-combustion engine) the housing that encloses the crankshaft, connecting rods, and allied parts.
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