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 ...
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 ...