Auto Tech 5

Metal plates that are welded into the oil sump. These plates help to keep the oil pickup screen when the vehicle is cornering, braking, or accelerating hard. Oil will move during these conditions, and the ______ will help to keep it from moving away from the pickup.

• Rotors
• Brakes
• Baffles
• Tie rods

Oil additives that keep acid from forming in the oil.

• Corrosion Inhibitors
• Dry gas
• Transmission Fluid
• Synthetic oil

An oil pump that uses a crescent shaped part to separate the oil pump gears from each other, allowing oil to be moved from one side of pump to the other.

• Moon pump
• Wedge pump
• Fluid pump
• Crescent pump

A type of splash lubricating system used in small engines. It works like a spoon scooping up oil and throwing it upward onto the crankshaft and other wear surfaces.

• Spoon
• Scoop
• Dipper
• Splash

Oil additives that keep contaminants held in suspension in the oil, to be removed by the filter or when the oil is changed

• Dry gas
• WD 40
• Dispersants
• Transmission fluid

The slowing down of the crankshaft when it strikes the oil in the crankcase

• Bore
• Drag
• Sway
• Drain

Large pressure placed on two bearing surfaces. _____ _____ will try to press oil from between bearing surfaces.

• Extreme Loading
• Extreme Priming
• Extreme Lading
• Extreme Swaying

An oil additive that ensures that a protective coating is given to moving engine parts and that keeps oil from being forced out under extreme pressure. Helps oil to cushion components.

• Extreme Pressure Preservative
• Extreme Pressure Additive
• Extreme Pressure Supplement
• Extreme Pressure extra

An oil filter installed on production cars. This oil filter cleans all oil coming from the oil pump on its way to the lubricated components.

• Production Filter
• Full-Flow Filter
• Air-Flow Filter
• Fuel-lubrication filter

Passageways drilled or cast into the engine block or heads, which carry pressurized lubricating oil to various moving parts in the engine, such as the camshaft bearings

• Galleries
• Hallways
• Corridors
• Fuel ways