Automotive Mechanics: How a Car Works

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Learning how a vehicle works can be very helpful to learn to get to see how everything comes together and makes a vehicle run properly. There are a few main components that allow a vehicle to run properly such as the engine, cooling system, drive train, brakes, electrical system and the exhaust. It’s very important that all of these components work properly for the vehicle to run efficiently. Without one of these components the vehicle may not run at all or it will run but will not be able to stop or may be polluting the earth more than usual. That’s why it is so interesting to know how all the components of an efficient running vehicle come together for that smooth peaceful ride. A vehicle must have an engine of some kind in order to convert gasoline, diesel, or some other kind of fuel source in to motion, which will propel the vehicle forward. Gasoline engines now use internal combustion, which burns the fuel inside the engine. Currently gasoline powered cars or trucks use a four-stroke combustion cycle to convert gasoline into motion. The four strokes of the cycle are the intake stroke, compression stroke, combustion stroke, and the exhaust stroke. This cycle is completed in the cylinders of the engine, which consist of pistons that are connected to the crankshaft by connecting rods. During the intake stroke the piston starts at the top, the intake valve will open letting in the proper amount of air and gasoline. It only takes a tiny drop of gasoline to make the process work. Next the piston moves back up to compress the mixture of fuel and air; this is called the compression stroke. After the compression stroke comes the combustion stroke. On this stroke, when the piston reaches the top the spark plug will ignite... ... middle of paper ... ...w.popularmechanics.com/cars/how-to/repair-questions/1302716>. 10 march 2014 . Brain, Marshall. 10 march 2014. 10 march 2014 . —. 10 march 2014 . Karim Nice, Charles W. Bryant. 10 march 2014 . —. 10 march 2014 . Nice, Karim. 10 march 2014. 10 march 2014 . —. 10 march 2014 . —. 10 march 2014 . —. 10 march 2014 . —. 10 march 2014 . Parker, Akweli. 10 march 2014 .

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