Get To Know Your Car

Although modern manufacturing has remove any piston valve tinkering from the list of DIY car care, I’ll outline here how the auto’s four-stroke cycle solves the problems of internal combustion.  At the top of the cylinder is a pair of valves.  The valve that lets the fuel in is called the ‘intake’ valve.  The one [...]

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Early gasoline was a by-product of the refining process for kerosene.  At first, gasoline was thought to be useless.  Nikolaus Otto developed a gasoline motor in the mid-1860s.  But it was Otto’s chief engineer who later harnessed gasoline power for a vehicle.  His name?  Gottlieb Daimler, as in Daimler-Chrysler.
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