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Last week my cousins tried to diagnose the car of our uncle because it seems that there’s a crashing sound in the front. Uncle was worried of it because according to him it might be an engine problem. Sad to say that he’s right, a mechanical part inside the engine was found crushed. The two automotive guys told him that there’s no problem with it because the damage parts to be replaced are common in most automotive stores down town. What matters most here is the price because it would range from 15,000-25,000 pesos per set. It’s really expensive that’s why until now the car remained unfixed in the garage of uncle.

Internet is a learning haven for everyone who wants to earn knowledge about certain concerns. Just like me, I want to learn about car engines, the parts of it, and the state of operation it takes to produce work. It was very awesome to know how this things work since engines do a lot of contributions in the current development especially with the transportation. As of now I still watching several videos to boost up my understanding about this topic but I hope sooner or later I could better expound some details about engines.

Today I will attempt to share a little bit of my understanding about what I learned online. During the past few days I was so interested to learn about engines. Specifically, I am talking about automotive engine since I always wonder of what makes it move and how come it could make an automobile move. Well, after several videos that I saw online, I came up to a point that I understand the cycle of the engine’s system.
So according to what I have seen on the videos, the main operation of an engine is to consume gasoline and produce another type of energy which is the mechanical energy. For short, it converts the chemical energy into mechanical energy to produce work and this process is called internal combustion system. One thing that amazed me of this is that air and gasoline are being mixed up before it is finally combusted or burned. The air is also filtered and regulated to get rid of some particles that are present on it so as to not to damage the engine’s internal parts. The mixing is done inside the carburetor. The amount of air and gasoline to be combusted is controlled and properly vaporized then after this the mixture does down to the combustion chamber.
So, you might also want to say something about this and if you have corrections, I am willing to understand and learn from what you can share with these matters. This is just a quite short discussion of how I learned something from the internet and I will be spending more time for this soon.

Yesterdays post was all about how gasoline and air is being prepared for the combustion stage. Now maybe it’s time to tackle the main mechanism wherein combustion happens. So, let me start by recapitulating the things about the carburetor. So in this particular device a chemical process takes place when air and fuel is being mixed to produce a specific blend for the combustion. It also controls the amount of mixture to be supplied to the intake.

Now let’s go down deeper. Engines are equipped with several parts or should I say networks which work on a specific task. Just like the carburetor which works together with the other parts such as the fuel tank and the air filter which then forms the fuel system. There is also an electrical system which plays a very important role in the combustion stage. It is composed of several major parts such as the ignition coil which works in the production of high voltage energy which will be sent to the spark plug via cable contact which is then called as spark plug wire. So there will be an induced energy supplied to the positive side of the spark plug which will then be passed down to the bottom of it wherein there a positive and ground point is almost in contact with each other. In this part the high voltage energy from the positive point in the bottom of the spark plug will tend to burst and reach the ground side. Due to that there will be a collision of electrical energy which will then result to a spark which will capture and burn the compressed mixture of fuel and air in the combustion chamber.

This might be very confusing in your part if you have no exposure on the terms that I have said earlier. Though I said it earlier that I would tackle about the main mechanisms of combustion system, I realized it that I need to be specific and expound more to be clear enough. So, now I would like to say that in the coming days you would expect me to share my learning more on the specific systems or networks in the engine. In the end of this topic I will put up everything as one and I hope I could hear some reactions or a sort of correction because I am not an expert on this and I am still learning some basics. Have a nice day!

Last night my father saw me in front of the computer while very serious on watching educational videos. He noticed that I am so much close to the monitor and then he said “Wow! Isn’t it interesting?” With that, I turned back at him looking so much exhausted of what I am doing. He asked me to sleep because it seems that I am so tired because it was already 2:00 am and I was still hanging on my PC. But I never cared to take some rest because I felt the need of something to learn. So instead of going down to my bed, I asked my father some questions about what I was watching and it was still about the engine.
Actually he was the one who asked me first about what was the video all about. And so I told him that it was an educational video about automotive engine. My father was not convinced since he knows a lot of this because he was once a driver and was able to explore the engine of different cars and trucks. So he said “That is not an engine of a car for sure. It might be a motorcycle engine or the other ones”. I felt very curious of why he says that and in fact he wasn’t able to see the video from the start. He explained it to me that there are actually two kinds of internal combustions engines that he knows to be used in most vehicles.
He said that the first one is called gasoline engines which are widely used in motorcycles. Then, the second one it called diesel engine that are used in cars and trucks. According to him these two differs a lot from each other because each has a unique means of combustion system. Father said that in a gasoline engine combustion system, the process of burning the fuel relies on the spark produces by the spark plug. While in the other hand, a diesel engine combustion system, only the heat is need to enable the combustion process. He added that if in a gasoline engine system, the combustion depends on the continuous instantaneous sparks from the spark plug, in the diesel engine system the glow plug primes the system for a starting heat and after that there will be an instant heat building up in the chamber for the combustion process.
Well that’s quite very enriching and very well explained. Though my father isn’t a graduate of an automotive course but I know that he has a lot of experience on this. He told me that to never lose this passion to learn more because maybe in the next following days I will be able to take a vocational course to really dig deeper on this aspects. Well, I hope so and I really wanted to learn the essentials for this tough jobs and I am looking forward to work on the industry related to this.

Most mothers prefer to have a child friendly car. Of course, their vocation is centered for the good of the rest of the family members especially the kids. So, in most cases they had their car being modified to suit the needs of the kids especially for the baby. Well, in most cases car seats, doors locks, safety belts, and etc. are the ones that are modified to give a comfortable and compatible ride for the little ones.

What’s the reality between car wax and polish? I got this relevant question just a while ago from an uncertain character. First, why should we avoid using car polish on our car as always as weekly or monthly? Well, car polish is designed to clean the surface of your car which is usually covered with paint. The cleaning process incorporates cleaning chemical and abrasives so it will basically scratch off the supposed dirty surface and leaves the clean painted face after. So, if done often then might as well that the cleaning process will damage the paint as per application. Also, polish will give a nice deep shiny surface but it will wear away through time. While car polish seems to clean, car was will protect in any ways possible. So, car care experts would suggest that using car wax is a lot better when use more often rather than car polish.

My cousin has a motorcycle that he uses for his personal businesses daily. After he arrives, he lets the engine of the bike to cool down and then he washes it afterwards. The bike always looks nice and new because he never missed to apply polish on it. I think this bike lasted 14 years as of this time and because it is properly cared then I am sure that I will go for more extra miles.

Riding a two-wheeled vehicle such as the motorcycle is such a dangerous scene on the road. Well, not to generalize every instance but some studies says that a quite percentage of the overall road accidents happening include motorcycles. Motorcycle related accidents are often fatal so as we can see our traffic agents are getting strict with the implementation of the rules.

With all the vehicles along the road that we encounter each day we can’t tell who of which will put us into danger. Well, what can we actually do with it? We have to be safe and put ourselves away from those dangerous, reckless drivers. There are lots of things that we can do as precautionary actions for us to be protected against further accidents on the road. Actually, our traffic authority just got us a set of driving safety precautions and guidelines but still a few of our fellow road users just likely fail to follow it. Well, still there are lots of ways to be safe while driving on the road. We just have to bear with those guidelines.