Engine Guide

Engine Guide

Engine types and components. Guides, service and repairs.

  • Fuel pump mechanical how it works

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    Fuel pump mechanical how it works

    How a mechanical fuel pump works The fuel pump is used to provide the pressure necessary to drive the fuel from the storage tank to the carburettor. There are two basic types of ...

  • Fuel Pump Replace

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    Fuel Pump Replace

    How to Replace a car Electric Fuel Pump The fuel delivery system is vital to the car's engine performance. The engine is designed to operate on a specific fuel system pressure. ...

  • Fuel Pump types

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    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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • H engine

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    H engine

    H engine An H engine (or H-block) is an engine configuration in which the cylinders are aligned so that if viewed from the front, they appear to be in a vertical or horizontal ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Heater Not Working

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    Heater Not Working

    Car Heater Not Working Your car's heater is a life saver in cold weather. Before attempting to repair your cars heater, you should understand how your heater system works. First, ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • How to Remove Headless Bolts

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    How to Remove Headless Bolts

    How to Remove Headless car Bolts Removing car studs Studs are headless bolts threaded at both ends with plain metal between or threaded along their whole length. On the type with ...

  • How to Use a feeler gauge

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    How to Use a feeler gauge

    How to Use a feeler gauge A Typical Car feeler Gauge A feeler gauge has a number of thin stainless steel blades, each one of a stated thickness. The figures printed on the blades ...

  • Hybrid Synergy Drive

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    Hybrid Synergy Drive

    Hybrid Synergy Drive explained Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD) designates a set of hybrid car technologies developed by Toyota and used in the company's Yaris, Auris, Prius, ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...