How to Use crankcase in a Sentence

crankcase

noun

• The block has what GM calls a dedicated lower crankcase.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
• If your crankcase is overfilled, have the excess drained.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
• The word wilderness will slip out, and dynamite, sand in the crankcase, slow elk, naked swimming mixed with William Blake and have a beer, bub.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
• People in four-wheeled vehicles — at least some of them — were hotter than a crankcase.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Smoke coming out of the oil-fill port like this might be indicative of a bad crankcase vent system, depending on the vehicle.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2011
• Check the manual to see if the PCV valve is a check valve or some other method for metering manifold vacuum into the crankcase.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2011
• The oily gaseous mixture then deposits on the intake valves via the positive crankcase ventilation, or PCV, system.
  — Bob Weber, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2018
• But overfilling the crankcase by 1 quart is not likely to cause any problem whatsoever.
  — Ray Magliozzi, courant.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• Finished in green, the heavy chassis classic features an aluminum crankcase and an extra-long bonnet just like the racing models of the 20th century.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2021
• In the case of a bicycle, as Newman suggests, the crankcase moves the bike analogously to the rider’s physical exertion.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2017
• One motor is integrated into the turbocharger, another is installed on the combustion engine with a link to the crankcase, and the two remaining motors drive the front wheels.
  — Kirsten Korosec, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2017
• The brakes use engine vacuum to reduce the pedal effort, and the emissions-control system relies on the negative pressure to prevent crankcase fumes from escaping.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2011
• The aluminum positive crankcase ventilation valves can fall apart.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
• Starting in 1961, new cars had to use positive crankcase ventilation, which limited emissions by controlling how air moves through the engine.
  — Wired, 19 Sep. 2019
• An engine's key internal components should always have a thin coating of oil to keep them lubricated and protected; as your vehicle sits, gravity slowly pulls the oil down to the crankcase.
  — Maxwell B. Mortimer, Car and Driver, 10 Apr. 2020
• The automaker said the aluminum positive crankcase ventilation valves can fall apart, potentially causing debris to fall into the engine and cause a power loss.
  — CBS News, 24 Oct. 2019
• Some emissions control systems also rely on this negative pressure to prevent crankcase fumes from escaping.
  — Mike Allen, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2020
• Durability measures include iron cylinder liners, seven nodular iron main bearing caps, a deep-skirt block design, and a stiffness-enhancing aluminum lower crankcase extension attached to the main bearing caps.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 2 July 2019

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024