What causes the injector to blow on a diesel engine?
Diesel injector blowing is caused when the diesel injector seal has not seated correctly against the cylinder head. You can sometimes cure diesel injector blowing by removing the injector, cleaning the injector from carbon and fitting a new copper sealing washer and refitting the injector.
How is the throttle connected to the accelerator?
In the old days, there used to be a cable that was connected from the throttle to the accelerator. But now in the technological age, the car’s computer controls when the throttle opens and closes by the feedback it gets about the acceleration of the vehicle.
Why does my bike engine keep cutting out?
The garage have just called to say they can not find anything wrong with the bike and that they have taken it out for a 10k run and it hasn’t missed a beat. So is it the way i am riding it that is causing the problem??
Why does riding a bike in lower gear consume more fuel?
Riding in lower gear will consume more fuel than riding in higher gear. Motor runs at higher RPM in lower gears (say first gear) and also produces more torque since power is proportional to torque into RPM. and to get this more RPM plus a higher torque, more fuel is consumed.
How does a fuel injector on a bike work?
The calculations are done by a computer called an ECU (electronic control unit), a black box not much bigger than a pack of fags that often lives under one of the seats. It receives information from sensors around the bike and decides on the amount of fuel. What sort of sensors?
Are there any motorcycles that use fuel injection?
Most of the bikes plying on the road today still use the good ol’ carb. But now more and more two wheeler companies are looking into fuel injection as an option in their bikes simply because it is the new tech that has come up. But don’t get us wrong, fuel injection has been in the picture since the 1980s.
What to do if your fuel injector is not delivering fuel?
Start the engine. It should sound the same. Remove the spark plug. If the spark plug is dry, then the injector does not deliver fuel to that cylinder. If the spark plug is wet and smells like gasoline, then the injector on that cylinder is not your problem. Moving the suspect injector to another cylinder is one way of diagnosing the problem.
Can a fuel injector be unclogged while in the engine?
Although there are many products such as injection cleaning additives that claim it can clean or unclog a clogged fuel injector while it is in the engine, they cannot. For any of these products to work they actually have to get inside the injector.