Talk:Rocker arm

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This article looks like it was copy & pasted from a patent text. I think the text should be clearer to understand and possibly containing supporting pictures/references for the claims made.

There are many factors that contribute the rocker arm design, and many more constraints that effect the final outcome of such a design. Sub topics of valve wear, socket wear, heat and lubrication issues, stability, stiffness, mass and inertia, dynamic response, wear surface treatment, pivot and head geometry and many more are topics that need to be mentioned.

How it works

The rocker arm is the lever that in a controled fation moves the voulve up and down. When the engine turns it pushes the push rod up which makes the rocker arm act as a sea saw so when the push rod pushes one side up the other goes down which opens the voulve —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.191.123.201 (talk) 04:14, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added a description of the diagram in the second paragraph. Hopefully this clarifies the diagram and the article generally. Grj23 (talk) 04:46, 15 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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the Valve, the Rocker Arms (pair of) and the Cylinders wrt Pistons

so am i correct if i say or conclude for me with you as a reader that an 8 valve engine has 4 pairs of rocker arm, that should be intake paired with exhaust rockers per cylinder and piston, counting the cylinder as four with its piston. 16 valve are 8 sets of rocker arms (a pair of) and with four cylinder with its piston, each cylinder has four 2intake/2exhaust that will be 2 sets (pair of) rocker arms per cylinder. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.53.185.85 (talk) 18:32, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]