valve lifter

noun

, Automotive, Machinery.

1. (in an internal-combustion engine) a tappet that opens a valve when actuated by a camshaft.

Example Sentences

G.M. yanked away Mid-American’s largest line of business, a valve lifter guide, a part used deep inside an engine block, that provided 80 percent of its revenues.

From New York Times

For this purpose, an “exhaust valve lifter” is usually fitted, by means of which the exhaust can be kept permanently open, in order to relieve the resistance to pedalling which the compression stroke would otherwise offer.

From Project Gutenberg

Cole starts Stanway's pickup, advises him that a bad valve lifter is his problem and suggests that an oil additive will probably get him over the 1,200 miles to Savanna.

From Time Magazine Archive

Clickety-click: it's in the valve or valve lifter.

From Time Magazine Archive