To ascertain this, open pet cocks of all cylinders except the one to be tested, crank over motor and see that a strong opposition to cranking is met with once in two revolutions.
One counteracts the defects of the other, so that from the cranking of the motor to its highest speed there is a constant ratio of air and gasoline to supply efficient combustion.
In cranking engine either by starting crank, or propeller, it is essential to throw it over compression quickly.
Listen for hissing sound while cranking motor for leaks at other places.
I got out and cranked for a time, but soon knew that there was trouble deeper than mere cranking would remove.
You just try cranking a Ford car for hours at a time in woolen stockings!
By this time Ned was franticallycranking up the machine.
He ran around to the front of the auto, seized the cranking handle and gave several vigorous turns.
Comes me cranking in, And cuts me from the best of all my land, A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
This was finally worked out by Packard through the use of glow plugs and speeding up the injectors during the cranking period.
It had been felt that during the slow cranking process we were not vaporizing the fuel through the nozzles and that if we could speed up the injection pumps during this period of cranking a better vaporization could be obtained.
The method used for speeding up the injection pumps was accomplished by utilizing a crankshaft cam during the cranking period.
With a quick motion he shoved over the spark lever and the motor started, for a charge had remained in one of the cylinders, obviating the necessity of cranking up.
When he had reached an approximate equilibrium, he could move the submarine up or down, or hold it at any desired depth, by cranking a small vertical-acting propellor placed just forward of the conning-tower on the deck above.
She was trundled along the bottom of Sandy Hook Bay by one or two men cranking the axle of the two driving wheels.
Usually a clutch that holds without any noticeable slippage when cranking engine, also holds on the road.
Test clutch after each half‐turn of the three adjusting nuts by cranking engine.
How lovely to lie in bed and hear other people cranking up their cars!
I starts cranking at the splash, and with the bergs all rolling about and bumping into each other no one can tell but what it was one of them that really started it.
Harmon was still cranking when I got him in focus, while the packer had jumped to his feet and was executing a pas seul evidently intended to convey the impression he had made a hit.
And so Roos, who was cranking steadily all the time, got his "Birth of an Iceberg" picture after all.
And that surely was what it looked like, to every one at least but the calmly cranking Harmon.
But Roos was going to be crankingon the cliff when we went through Hell Gate, and Ike didn't care a fig what happened to him anyhow.
She could see him stooping and rising to it, a rhythmic, elastic movement; he was cranking energetically, with a sort of furious, flushed enjoyment of his power.
John was cranking up the engine when she turned back into the house.
In the minute between the concussion of the shell and the cranking of the engine.
Do not make too much noise cranking your automobile, Limpy-toes," whispered Grand-daddy.
Must we stop every few minutes and wear our paws out cranking it up forty-'leven times?
When the door opened he had had a good view of the inside of the room, of a slave cranking the handle on a crude collection of junk that could only have been a generator.
Jason straddled his body, picked the stick up, nodded to the slave who began cranking faster, and began to tap out a message.
The taxicab driver had stalled his engine and was cranking it.
Once before Tish had almost broken an arm cranking a car and had been driven to arnica compresses for a week; but this time we dared not suggest anything.
If I knew I’d tell you,” returned Dan, and went to cranking again.
The chauffeur was already crankingup the maroon car.
If the car is equipped with a starter the spark and throttle levers should be placed in the same position on the quadrant as when cranking by hand, and the ignition switch turned on.
When the vibrators are not properly adjusted more current is required to make and break the contact between the points, and, as a result, at cranking speeds you would not get a spark between the spark plug points.
Therefore the hand lever should be back as far as it will go when cranking the engine or when the car is at rest.
Suppose we don't care to give you a lift," she said, her hand on the cranking lever.
Billie was squeezed into a seat beside the woman and while the peddler, Indian, or whatever he was, was crankingup the machine she opened her eyes and looked straight into the little pig eyes of a fat Indian squaw.
B---- broke his arm cranking his car this morning.
A hasty glance at Mink now and then revealed him industriously cranking away.
Delighted I turned and glanced at Mink; he wascranking furiously.
The chauffeurs could be heard cranking their cars desperately, sounds which gave Jack considerable delight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cranking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
