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Engine Guide

Engine types and components. Guides, service and repairs.

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  • Core plug

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    Core plug

    Engine Core plugs Core plugs, are usually metal cups that fill the sand casting core holes found on water-cooled internal combustion engines. They are often wrongly called Welsh ...

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  • Crank Journals (pins)

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    Crank Journals (pins)

    Engine Crank Journals (pins) explained Crankpins highlighted in blue In a reciprocating engine, the crankpins, also known as crank journals are the journals of the big end ...

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  • Crankcase

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    Crankcase

    Engine Crankcase In an internal combustion engine of the reciprocating type, the crankcase is the housing for the crankshaft. The enclosure forms the largest cavity in the engine ...

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  • Crankcase ventilation & PCV valve

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    Crankcase ventilation & PCV valve

    Engine Crankcase ventilation system & (PCV) valve Car pcv valve A crankcase ventilation system is a way for gases to escape in a controlled manner from the crankcase of an ...

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  • Crankshaft

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    Crankshaft

    Engine Crankshaft explained The crankshaft, sometimes abbreviated to crank, is the part of an engine that translates reciprocating linear piston motion into rotation. To convert ...

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  • Crankshaft Crossplane

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    Crankshaft Crossplane

    V8 Crossplane crankshaft The crossplane or cross-plane is a crankshaft design for V8 engines with a 90° angle between the cylinder banks. The crossplane crankshaft is the ...

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  • Crankshaft deep rolling

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    Crankshaft deep rolling

    Crankshaft deep rolling Deep rolling is a method of cold work deformation and burnishing of internal combustion engine crankshaft journal fillets to increase durability and ...

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  • Cylinder

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    Engine Cylinder explained A cylinder is the central working part of a reciprocating engine or pump, the space in which a piston travels. Multiple cylinders are commonly arranged ...

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  • Cylinder bank

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    Cylinder bank

    Engine Cylinder bank explained Internal combustion piston engines (those with more than one cylinder) are usually arranged so that the cylinders are in lines parallel to the ...

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  • Cylinder block

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    Cylinder block

    Engine Cylinder block A cylinder block is an integrated structure comprising the cylinder(s) of a reciprocating engine and often some or all of their associated surrounding ...

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  • Cylinder Bore & Pitch

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    Cylinder Bore & Pitch

    Cylinder Bore & Pitch Bore is the diameter measurement of the cylinders in a piston engine. Engine displacement is calculated by: Bore pitch is the distance between the ...

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  • Cylinder Compression Test

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    Cylinder Compression Test

    Car Engine Cylinder Compression Test Engine Cylinder Compression Gauge An engine depends on an equal amount of compression in each cylinder to operate smoothly. If poor ...

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  • Cylinder head

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    Cylinder head

    Cylinder head In an internal combustion engine, the cylinder head (often informally abbreviated to just head) sits above the cylinders on top of the cylinder block. It closes in ...

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  • Cylinder head porting

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    Cylinder head porting

    Car Cylinder head porting explained Cylinder head porting refers to the process of modifying the intake and exhaust ports of an internal combustion engine to improve the quality ...

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  • Cylinder head Reverse-flow

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    Cylinder head Reverse-flow

    Engine Reverse-flow cylinder head In engine technology, a reverse-flow or non-crossflow cylinder head is one that locates the intake and exhaust ports on the same side of the ...

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  • De Dion-Bouton V8 (1909-1921)

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    De Dion-Bouton V8 (1909-1921)

    De Dion-Bouton V8 Mark De Dion-Bouton Years of production 1909 to 1921 Energy Gasoline Motor V8 engine De Dion-Bouton V8 is a range of V8 engines from the French automobile ...

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  • Desmodromic Valve

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    Desmodromic Valve

    Desmodromic valve A desmodromic valve is a reciprocating engine valve that is positively closed by a cam and leverage system, rather than by a more conventional spring. The ...

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  • Dry Sump

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    Dry Sump

    Engine Dry Sump A dry sump is a lubricating motor oil management method for four-stroke and large two-stroke piston internal combustion engines that uses external pumps and a ...

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  • Elsbett engine

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    Elsbett engine

    Elsbett Vegetable oil engine The Elsbett engine is a design of diesel engine designed to run on vegetable oil. It's also known as Elko engine and was invented by Ludwig Elsbett. ...

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  • Engine balance

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    Engine balance

    Engine balance Engine balance refers to the inherent motions of the components of an engine, such as an internal combustion engine, and the engineering solutions used to minimise ...

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  • Engine Blueprinting

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    Engine Blueprinting

    Engine Blueprinting Engine blueprinting means specifically to create an engine that reflects the design intent through the removal of manufacturing tolerances insofar as that is ...

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  • Engine configurations explained

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    Engine configurations explained

    Engine configuration Explained Engine configuration is an engineering term for the layout of the major components of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine. These ...

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  • Engine displacement

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    Engine displacement

    Engine displacement explained One complete cycle of a four-cylinder, four-stroke engine. The volume displaced is marked in red. Engine displacement is the volume swept by all the ...

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  • Engine knocking (Pinking)

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    Engine knocking (Pinking)

    Car Engine knocking (Pinking) explained Knocking (also called knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) in spark-ignition internal combustion engines occurs when ...

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  • Engine Oil & Filter How to Change

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    Engine Oil & Filter How to Change

    How to Change car Engine Oil and Filter Typical car filter and oil plug location Normal oil and oil filter change service is mandatory forlong engine life. Today's engines have ...

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  • Engine Oil Leaks

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    Engine Oil Leaks

    Car Engine Oil Leaks Any engine oil leak is not normal, when you notice oil underneath your car it means an engine oil leak has developed. Inside the engine there are two states ...

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  • Engine Oil Pressure High or Low

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    Engine Oil Pressure High or Low

    High or Low Engine Oil Pressure The oil in your engine is used to cool and lubricate the bearings and machined surfaces of the internal moving parts. Without oil and oil pressure ...

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  • Engine Overheating or Runs Hot

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    Engine Overheating or Runs Hot

    Engine Overheating or Runs Hot help Engine Overheating Repair Inside your car's engine, thousands of controlled explosions called combustion events occur. These explosions are ...

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  • Engine Service Light Trouble Codes

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    Engine Service Light Trouble Codes

    Engine Service Light Trouble Codes How to Check for Trouble Codes If you see a "check engine" or a "service engine soon" light in your instrument cluster, your car has stored a ...

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  • Engine Tune-up

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    Engine Tune-up

    Basic Car Engine Tune-up Most vehicles have ignition systems and a throttle bore. The enigne's ignition system is the component that ignites the fuel air mixture inside the ...

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  • Engine Windage

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    Engine Windage

    Engine Windage Explained Windage is a force created on an object by friction when there is relative movement between air and the object. There are two causes of windage: the ...

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  • Expansion tank

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    Expansion tank

    Expansion tank An expansion tank is also used in the cooling system of most internal combustion engines, to allow the antifreeze and air in the system to expand with rising ...

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  • Firing order

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    Firing order

    Engine Firing order The firing order is the sequence of power delivery of each cylinder in a multi-cylinder reciprocating engine. This is achieved by sparking of the spark plugs ...

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  • Flat-eight engine

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    Flat-eight engine

    Flat-eight engine A flat-8 or horizontally opposed-8 is an internal combustion engine in flat configuration, having 8 cylinders. The most famous engine of this type is the ...

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  • Flat-four engine

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    Flat-four engine

    Flat-four engine A flat-four or horizontally opposed-4 is a flat engine with four cylinders arranged horizontally in two banks of two cylinders on each side of a central ...

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  • Flat-six engine

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    Flat-six engine

    Flat-six engine A flat-6 or horizontally opposed-6 is a flat engine with six cylinders arranged horizontally in two banks of three cylinders on each side of a central crankcase. ...

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  • Flat-sixteen engine

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    Flat-sixteen engine

    Flat-sixteen engine A flat-16 is an internal combustion engine in flat configuration, having 16 cylinders. There are few examples. The British engine manufacturing company ...

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  • Flat-twelve engine

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    Flat-twelve engine

    Flat-twelve engine A flat-12 is an internal combustion engine in a flat configuration, having 12 cylinders. The flat-12 is wider (but significantly lower in height) than a V12 . ...

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  • Flat-twin engine

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    Flat-twin engine

    Flat-twin car engine A flat-twin is a two cylinder internal combustion engine with the cylinders arranged on opposite sides of the crankshaft. It is a flat engine with two ...

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  • Flathead engine

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    Flathead engine

    Flathead engine A flathead engine (aka sidevalve engine, flathead, or flatty) is an internal combustion engine with valves placed in the engine block beside the piston, instead ...

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  • Four-stroke engine explained

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    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 ...

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  • Four-stroke engine History

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    Four-stroke engine History

    Four-stroke engine History A four-stroke engine (also known as four-cycle) is an internal combustion engine in which the piston completes four separate strokes—intake, ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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. ...

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  • Fuel Filter injection Replace

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    Fuel Filter injection Replace

    Replace Car Fuel Filter injection A vehicles fuel filter is used to keep the fuel that is used in the fuel injection system clean to avoid plugging the fuel injectors and the ...

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