Re: How to Bench Test a Starter?

Posted by Rusty O\'Toole On 2010/3/9 17:02:01

The offset crank is known as Des-Axe. If u google it u'll find it's for easy starting of hand or leg cranked engines. Desaxe is still used today in small engines and was not uncommon during the prewar era among several manufacturers..

This is still done today to silence piston slap. Except now they offset the wrist pin in the piston.

The last engine I know of with the crankshaft offset was the Ford flathead V8 although, there are probably others.

I don't know when it started but I have seen a magazine ad for a luxury car from about 1913 that included it in a list of features.