What happens during the exhaust stroke?
The exhaust stroke is the final phase in a four stroke engine. In this phase, the piston moves upwards, squeezing out the gasses that were created during the combustion stroke. The gasses exit the cylinder through an exhaust valve at the top of the cylinder.
What is a exhaust stroke?
The purpose of the exhaust stroke is to clear the cylinder of the spent exhaust in preparation for another ignition cycle. The exhaust stroke begins at Stage 6 as the piston is pushed towards the combustion chamber (to the right in the figure). The exhaust gas is pushed past the valve and exits the engine.
How can you tell the difference between an exhaust stroke and a compression stroke?
It explains that if one of your valves on no. 1 are open it means that you are on exhaust stroke. You are to spin the crank one revolution and then you will be on compression stroke and both valves will be open.
During which stroke does the exhaust valve open?
power stroke
Why do exhaust valves close after TDC?
It releases the excess pressure and helps to reduce pumping losses for the piston when it moves up. The exhaust valve closes after a few degrees of piston reaching the TDC, i.e. when the piston starts to move down the cylinder in the suction stroke.
Are both valves closed at TDC?
Power stroke. The piston is at top dead center, intake and exhaust valves are both closed and the spark plug has just fired. The exhaust valve opens fully and starts to go closed. Before the piston reaches TDC, the intake valve starts to open and the exhaust valve is still partially open.
Should all valves be closed at TDC?
If a piston is at top dead center on the compression stroke, both the intake and exhaust valves should be closed. When at top dead center on the exhaust stroke, the exhaust valve should be open. Either both or none, depending on whether the piston is beginning the intake stroke or the power stroke respectively.
What happens if your timing is 180 out?
If you are exactly 180 degrees out when the plug fires you will have open valves, which could get a bit messy as well as noisey since any unburnt fuel in the cylinder would get ignited. I can’t imagine it would even try to start since there is now way it would get any compression.
What causes a car to jump timing?
These sounds occur because the timing chain is getting loose and hitting things as it spins. The main time that you will hear these sounds is when you are first starting your car. This is because that is when the engine is producing the most power and causing the chain to move around.
What is a good timing light?
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What happens when your timing is off?
What causes ignition timing to be off? When any changes are made to the engine of a car, the ignition timing is adjusted accordingly. If not, you could experience several problems with your engine with improper ignition timing like knocking, hard to start, increase fuel usage, overheating, and reduced power.
How does timing affect AFR?
timing totally affects AFR; with not enough time for the flame to totally propagate, you’ll have unburned fuel, causing a rich condition. it’s quite easily visible, for example most automatic cars have quite a different timing in P/N vs D.
What is MBT timing?
Maximum brake torque (MBT) is the use of optimal ignition timing to take advantage of an internal combustion engine’s maximum power and efficiency. There is always an optimal spark timing for all operating conditions of an engine. MBT is ideal at wide-open throttle (WOT), but not desirable when the engine is at idle.