“Ram more air fuel mixture in, get more power out.” Supercharging gets its name from the Latin word “super” (pronounced soo pear) meaning “I conquer” and the English word “charging” which means the air charge that goes into the engine during intake cycle. The engine is having an additional air […]
It happens to all of us. We find that thrown away engine and are curious as to whether the insides of it are any good and decide to disassemble it. When I was in high school I was disassembling my engines all the time mainly because I liked to. But […]
Some of us when we are looking at an engine we get scared. We see springs and levers and linkages coming out from who knows where; we know they’re important for the operation of the engine. As an example I was doing a little wood splitting this weekend and if […]
We often get befuddled or confused when looking at engine circuitry and throw up our hands in despair, because it looks to overwhelming. The first thing to understand about a go kart starting circuit is that the click sound is coming from somewhere. In this instance it is more than […]
On gasoline engines the primary method for causing the fuel air mixture to become ignited is to use a spark. The spark is generated using high-voltage electricity which jumps across a gap in the engine combustion chamber. We all understand this process that the spark plug must give spark and […]
One of the biggest headaches you will run into is an engine that keeps stalling and quitting. As an example I have two different snow blowers and they invariably quit during their operation especially in a really big snow storm! They will run fine and then just start sputtering and […]
Many of us have driven a car and turned on the cruise control. We will be driving down the freeway and suddenly see a cop and then say hey we should put the speed back to 55, so we throw on the cruise control. What we don’t really notice happening […]
Very often we go to an old farm and see a lawnmower sitting in the backyard or we see an old chainsaw sitting on the shelf in the back shed. The thought goes through our head: ”It would be great if we could take that engine and use it on […]
