I will explain on a 1 cylinder engine. This makes it easier to under stand. Inside the cylinder is a piston that moves up and down tight to the side walls of the cylinder. Connected to the bottom of...
GM tried that once back in the 1980s. They took one of their gasoline engines and attempted to convert it to run as a diesel engine. To say that the results were less than satisfactory would be an...
A diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which uses the heat of compression to ignite the fuel/air mixture in the third stroke of the 4-stroke cycle, while the petrol engine is an internal...