Engine Guide

Engine Guide

Engine types and components. Guides, service and repairs.

  • Viscous Fan clutch

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    Viscous Fan clutch

    Viscous Fan clutch A fan clutch is a thermostatic device that exists as an integral component of certain automotive cooling systems. Function When the engine is cool or even at ...

  • Volkswagen V5 engine (1997-)

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    Volkswagen V5 engine (1997-)

    V5 engine The V5 engine is a V form engine with five cylinders. Volkswagen Volkswagen introduced the first V5 engine, though this engine is not a true twin-bank V engine, but ...

  • Volumetric Efficiency

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    Volumetric Efficiency

    Volumetric Efficiency explained What is engine volumetric efficiency, we explain below. The volumetric efficiency and compression ratio are the most important factors in ...

  • W12 engine

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    W12 engine

    W12 engine A W12 engine is a twelve cylinder piston internal combustion engine in a W configuration. W12 engines are manufactured in two distinct configurations. One ...

  • W16 engine

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    W16 engine

    W16 engine A W16 engine is a sixteen cylinder piston internal combustion engine in a four-bank W configuration. All W16 engines consist of two 'offset double-row' banks of eight ...

  • W18 engine

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    W18 engine

    W18 engine A W18 engine is an eighteen cylinder piston engine which usually has a single crankshaft with three banks of six cylinders arranged in an inverted broad arrow ...

  • Wankel engine History

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    Wankel engine History The Wankel engine is a type of internal combustion engine using an eccentric rotary design to convert pressure into a rotating motion instead of using ...

  • Water Injection

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    Water Injection

    Water injection In internal combustion engines, water injection, also known as anti-detonant injection, is spraying water into the cylinder or incoming fuel-air mixture to cool ...

  • Water Pump how it works

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    Water Pump how it works

    Water Pump Works A water pump is used to circulate coolant throughout the engine block,cooling and heater systems. The water pump is driven by the engine viaserpentine belt in ...

  • Water Pump Replace

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    Water Pump Replace

    How to Replace a car water pump A water pump is a critical part of your car's engine cooling system. Most waters pumps fail in one of two ways, either the input shaft seal fails ...

  • Welch plug

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    Welch plug

    Engine Welch plug The Welch plug,(misnomer: Welsh Plugs), is a thin, domed, disc of ferrous metal which is pushed, convex side out, into against an internal shoulder in the ...

  • Wet sump

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    Wet sump

    Automobile wet sump A wet sump is a lubricating oil management design for piston engines which uses the crankcase as a built-in reservoir for oil, as opposed to an external or ...

  • Windshield washer fluid

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    Windshield washer fluid explained Windshield washer fluid (also called windshield wiper fluid, wiper fluid, screen wash (in the UK), or washer fluid) is a fluid for motor ...