Smoother vehicle

[marvan]

Hello teachers,

I would love to ask for your help regarding engineering terminology. I have come across the following expression (in a workshop manual. It is about an engine of a bus. This specific part deals with the timing gear train):

In the case of smoother vehicle, after loosening the bolts to fasten the flexible plate, remove the washer, the flexible plate, the spacer according to this order.


I could not find in any dictionary, what a SMOOTHER vehicle could stand for. Also, it does not sound logical to me, that by loosening the bolts one could fasten something?!


Thanks a lot for your openion on this.

 

[bds51]

Hello Marvan,
'in case of a smoother vehicle' might mean in order to have a smooth(er) riding vehicle.

 

[marvan]

Hello,

thank you for your reply. That is what I thought. But in the context it does not make sense to me. This part is talking about removal of different parts of a gear train. Do you think that one could make a bus go smoother by removing some parts of a gear train in a specific order?

Thus I guess it might refer to a special kind of vehicle which has got the parts mentioned in my previous post. Other types do not have them.

 

[Tdol]

It does suggest a category of vehicle, which means it should have been defined somewhere. It could be a mistake or a direct translation- it should either be 'a smoother vehicle' or 'smoother vehicles', and 'according to this order', which again is not natural English. Where does the bus come from?

 

[marvan]

Hi Tdol,
I have found several kind of mistakes there. I guess it was created by the Japanese, since the mark of the bus is ISUZU.

 

[Raymott]

Hi Tdol,
I have found several kind of mistakes there. I guess it was created by the Japanese, since the mark of the bus is ISUZU.

Isuzu boss: Anyone here can speak English to write manual of bus?
Worker: I have stab at it!

A major Japanese company should be able to do better than this in the 21st century. I hope they put more care into building the bus.

 

[bds51]

Hello Marvan,
It is possible to have a smoother running vehicle by loosening certain bolts if they are too tight but it depends which ones. If this sentence is not all by itself, what are the two sentences that come before it and the two that follow it?

 

[marvan]

Hello everybody,
Quite a discussion here

Well, the sentence I mentioned in my original post is the beginning of a new paragraph. So there is nothing before it. It is followed by a picture.
However, the term "smoother" is mentioned in the manual several times. E.g.:

1. In a chart called "Main data and specification of a motor". Here, there are several specifications listed, among them e.g. idling speed. It is expressed in "rpm" (rotation per minute?) Then it is followed by 650 (smoother) and 575 (M/T).

This makes me also believe these are two different types of a motor / bus?

2. In a chapter named "Timing gear train". There is a picture of its components, which are all listed and explained below it. Some of them has got "smoother" in a bracket, some have "M/T". Others do not have this further specification. E.g.

• Flexible plate (smoother)
• Crankshaft end spacer (smoother)
• Flywheel (M/T)

 

[bds51]

Hello Marvan,
What's the normal idling speed (revolutions per minute) of a bus or a car? If it's around 900 rpm, then we don't want 'smoother' we want 'quieter'. I don't know what M/T means.