The typical four-stroke engine is made up of hundreds of parts. These parts are all designed and engineered to work together to make a prescribed amount of power, torque, engine longevity, and other ...

The rocker arm employs the use of a fulcrum or pivot to increase the cam lift by a given ratio. That increase in lift is the result of moving the pushrod pivot point closer to the fulcrum. That ...

To call the Crane Cams shaft-mounted "Quick-Lift" design rocker arms new would not be entirely accurate. To say they have burst onto the scene and have created a lot of excitement among ...

It's no secret that adding duration and valve lift helps make power. But besides changing camshafts, there is another way to modify valve events-change the rocker-arm ratio. Ford V-8 rocker ratios-at ...

Q I own a '99 Chevy Lumina with a 3.1-liter V6. This weekend I got a flashing check-engine light with a severe misfire. I took the vehicle to a shop, which told me I had two rocker arms blown right ...

Some early Captivas fitted with the diesel engine may have experienced a condition whereby the camshaft rocker arm bearing could fail. In some instances this rocker arm failure was known to result in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT In this paper, a simultaneous design and development work for a diesel engine valvetrain system is presented. The rocker arm is one ...

Some 2013 Acura RDX SUVs may intermittently illuminate the check engine light and store trouble code P3400 and/or P3497 in the PCM. One likely cause, reports Acura, is a sticking rocker arm oil ...