Engine components

Engine components

Crankshaft - Bearings - displacement - Firing orders- Glowplugs - Head Gasket

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  • Four-stroke engine explained

    Four-stroke engine explained

    Four-stroke engine explained How a four stroke engine works. There are two basic types of engines in common use today, namely two stroke and four stroke. These take their names fr ...

  • Freeze (frost) plug

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    Freeze (frost) plug

    Engine Freeze (frost) plug A true freeze plug is an expansion plug located in the side of an engine block that is supposed to protect the block against freeze damage. Water expand ...

  • Fuel filter

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    Fuel filter

    Fuel filter Explained A fuel filter is a filter in the fuel line that screens out dirt and rust particles from the fuel, normally made into cartridges containing a filter paper. T ...

  • Fuel Pump

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    Fuel Pump

    How a car Fuel Pump Works A fuel pump is used to supply fuel to the fuel injection system or carburetor, depending on the year of the vehicle Older vehicles use a mechanical pump ...

  • Glowplug

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    Glowplug

    Engine Glowplug A glowplug (alternatively spelled as glow plug or glow-plug) is a heating device used to aid starting diesel engines. The glow plug is a pencil-shaped piece of met ...

  • Gudgeon wrist pin

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    Gudgeon wrist pin

    Gudgeon wrist pin In internal combustion engines, the gudgeon pin (UK, wrist pin US) connects the piston to the connecting rod. In very early engine designs (including those drive ...

  • Harmonic balancer

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    Harmonic balancer

    Harmonic balancer explaned A harmonic balancer (also called crank pulley damper, crankshaft damper, torsional damper, or vibration damper) is a device connected to the crankshaft ...

  • Head gasket

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    Head gasket

    Head gasket types A head gasket is a gasket that sits between the engine block and cylinder head(s) in an internal combustion engine. Its purpose is to seal the cylinders to ensur ...

  • Heater core explained

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    Heater core explained

    Car Heater core explained A heater core is a radiator-like device used in heating the cabin of a vehicle. Hot coolant from the vehicle's engine is passed through a winding tube of ...

  • Heater Explained

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    Heater Explained

    How a Car Heater Works Typical Car heater system Before trying to fix your car's heater, you should understand how your car heater system works. On this page, an explanation of ho ...

  • How a cam works

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    How a cam works

    How a engine cam works A cam is a rotating or sliding piece in a mechanical linkage used especially in transforming rotary motion into linear motion or vice-versa. It is often a p ...

  • how car engine works?

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    Basics how a car engine works The car engine is an internal combustion engine, of which there are a number of various types including diesel engine, gasoline engine, rotary engine ...

  • Hydrolock

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    Hydrolock

    Engine Hydrolock Explained Hydrolock (a shorthand notation for hydrostatic lock) is an abnormal condition of any device which is designed to compress a gas by mechanically restrai ...

  • ignitor Hot tube

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    ignitor Hot tube

    Hot-tube ignitor A hot-tube ignitor was an early device that fit onto the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine, used to ignite the compressed fuel/air mixture by means o ...

  • Injection Common rail

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    Injection Common rail

    Common rail direct fuel injection Common rail direct fuel injection is a modern variant of direct fuel injection system for petrol and diesel engines. On diesel engines, it featur ...

  • Internal combustion engine cooling

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    Internal combustion engine cooling

    Automotive engine cooling Internal combustion engine cooling refers to the cooling of an internal combustion engine, typically using either air or a liquid. Overview Heat engines ...

  • Main 4-bolt

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    Main 4-bolt

    4-bolt main Explained A 4-bolt main refers to the number of bolts attaching the main bearing caps to the block of an internal combustion engine. Four bolt mains are considered muc ...

  • Main 6-bolt

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    Main 6-bolt

    6-bolt main engine 6-bolt main refers to the number of bolts holding the main caps to the block of an internal combustion engine, and therefore holding the crankshaft in place. A ...