Can you remember the first new car that had a catalytic converter? To sharpen your recollection, the first catalytic converters were introduced in the mid-70’s when the Clean Air Act was first signed into law. The first car to meet the 1975 emissions standards was a Chrysler Avenger, and it was equipped with a rhodium-promoted […]
The Mother of All (well, the mother of most) Fuel-Injection Fuel injection for automotive engines goes back at least to the folks at Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz in 1898, whose mechanical plunger-pumps fueled turn-of-that-century engines until those goldurned newfangled contraptions, carburetors[!], supplanted them. Almost since then — since 1912, that is — Robert Bosch GmbH of Stuttgart […]
Last month we examined the behavior of a failed TW sensor on a 1991 Honda Civic. This month we’ll add a few more details to the diagnosis, and explain the other components that make this system tick. How do the injectors and main relay work? Which injectors fire when? And what about that alternator control? […]
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