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The trailer rides on a rocker arm suspension with massive coilovers featuring eight-stage gas stiffness adjustment.
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New Atlas, 19 June 2025
The solid rocker arms and rotating cam lobes do create more friction than valve springs, which increase wear on these solid components that need to stay within microscopically tight tolerances to perfectly time the valvetrain.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
The side plates, rocker arm, back spring, and blade are the core of the knife.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
Longer roller rocker arms and a Lingenfelter Performance Engineering (LPE) custom-ground camshaft provided higher lift and more duration.
—Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2023
Salvatore Vicari, the works council chief at Schaeffler’s Homburg plant, said over the din of clanking and whirring machines transforming metal bands into rocker arms that help combustion engines save fuel.
—Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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New Atlas, 19 June 2025
The solid rocker arms and rotating cam lobes do create more friction than valve springs, which increase wear on these solid components that need to stay within microscopically tight tolerances to perfectly time the valvetrain.
—Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 11 Dec. 2023
The side plates, rocker arm, back spring, and blade are the core of the knife.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2023
Longer roller rocker arms and a Lingenfelter Performance Engineering (LPE) custom-ground camshaft provided higher lift and more duration.
—Larry Webster, Car and Driver, 12 Aug. 2023
Salvatore Vicari, the works council chief at Schaeffler’s Homburg plant, said over the din of clanking and whirring machines transforming metal bands into rocker arms that help combustion engines save fuel.
—Bloomberg.com, 28 Mar. 2018
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“Rocker arm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rocker%20arm. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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