Hydrogen Combustion Engine – So you’re wondering if the hydrogen powered engine is right around the corner? Well, you might be seeing it on TV as the savior to all of our problems, but what they don’t tell you is that we are just going to end up in the same situation we are already [...]
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There isn’t much an amateur mechanic with a limited tool kit can (or should) do to the major components inside marine diesels apart from making sure that it has a good supply of fuel and air and clean lubricating oil. You can, however, check and adjust the gap between the rocker and the valve. There [...]
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The torque converter is one of the least understood components in an automatic transmission equipped vehicle. I will attempt to explain what it does and how it does it. The torque converter has a few different functions. We first need to understand that there is no direct link between the crankshaft and the transmission input [...]
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