The key ingredient to maximizing the peak performance of a diesel engine is increasing the amount of diesel being burned. On old mechanical-injection engines, the only way to do this was to modify the ...

Diesel engines operate at higher compression ratios than gasoline engines, and fuel is injected under much higher pressure. An injection pump, usually driven by a belt or chain linked to the ...

If you’re in fleet management or the construction industry, you undoubtedly have machines that run on diesel fuel. In addition to large trucks, more than 75% of all heavy construction equipment uses ...

FRANKFURT -- Robert Bosch GmbH has resumed production of its diesel fuel-injection pumps after a remedying a defect that will cause some manufacturing lines to grind to a halt at two major German ...

If you browse forums often, chances are you've come across some heated discussions around the CP4 fuel pump. The CP4, short for "Common Rail Pump 4," is a high-pressure fuel injection pump that made ...

Gregg Petersen's Hilborn-injected Chevette. The first thing you should understand is that direct-port, constant-flow fuel-injection—Hilborns, En-derles, Crowers, whatever—were never designed, nor ...

Diesel injectors fail because of two main reasons. The first has to do with the mechanical soundness of the injector structure, and the second has to do with the quality of the fuel running through ...