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Your diesel engine has started to stall and misfire. You notice you aren’t getting the miles per gallon you used to. The exhaust from your engine smells worse than ever, but even over that, you can smell a fuel odor emanating from your vehicle. If these are happening to you, your fuel injector probably needs to be replaced. When it’s time to replace a fuel injector (which happens about every 100,000 miles on a diesel engine) or any of the diesel fuel injection parts, it can be tempting to save a few dollars and get parts labeled rebuilt, remanufactured, or...

The words “diesel engine” don’t typically invoke images of sleek and fast cars. But as diesel engine technology advances, car manufacturers are taking advantage of the improvements to design diesel sports cars that don’t disappoint. Here are 13 of the fastest diesel sports cars you can find on the market today. 1. Audi A8 4.2 TDI This car packs a punch and can go from 0 to 62 miles per hour (mph) in just 4.7 seconds. The 4.2-liter TDI engine produces 384 horsepower (hp) while not skimping on the torque (getting 590 pound-feet of torque). On top of that, it...

C. L. Best, who is known for his work as a pioneering tractor company executive, used to say, “When you sell someone a tractor, you’d run that check to the bank before it broke down and they’d complain.” That was not the case, however, for the crowning achievement of his tractor career: the Best 60 tractor. What’s Different about the Best 60 Tractor? The Best 60 tractor changed the tractor world. But what exactly did this tractor do that no other tractor had done before? Transmission. The Best 60 tractor had a two-speed transmission (later increased to three gear sets)...

Every fuel-powered engine takes in air and fuel and combusts them, before shooting the remnants out as exhaust. To get more power from an engine, you will need to burn more fuel (and do it faster). But when you have a set volume of area in the engine where the fuel and air can go, how can you burn more? Bigger engines that could hold larger volumes of fuel are not the answer, as they very slow to start and are not practical in size (since it would take more energy to move a larger piece of equipment, voiding out...

Turbochargers have changed the way we create engines. Instead of naturally-aspirated engines that create exhaust gas that is just wasted, turbochargers are able to take in exhaust gas and harness power from it, pull in even more air than it would normally get through a standard intake, compress that air, and use the compressed air to create even more power. History of Turbochargers Before the 1900s, the only petrol gas and diesel engines were naturally-aspirated engines that created a lot of exhaust. Many different engineers saw the potential to tap into the exhaust from the engines as a source of...