Diesel engines do their hardest work in the toughest jobs, from highway semis to construction equipment, and the reason they can survive that punishment starts with how fiercely they squeeze the air ...

Modern internal combustion engines — including those that run on diesel fuel — require a lot of special parts and systems to prevent dumping excess emissions into the atmosphere. Not only are those ...

A fundamental difference between gasoline and diesel engines is that a gasoline engine uses spark ignition while a diesel engine uses compression ignition. Before we delve deeper, let's understand how ...

Among diesel technicians, a few engines have earned a reputation for turning routine jobs into all-day battles, with cramped packaging, fragile components and baffling design choices that punish ...

A diesel engine is simultaneously incredibly simple and incredibly violent, using compression as a means of ignition. This is because of the properties of diesel fuel: Namely, diesel is less volatile ...

Pushrod engines may not be as popular as they used to be, but to paraphrase the old Mark Twain misquote, "The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated." In fact, GM recently announced it was ...

For Paul, a Level 1 Engineering Field Service Technician at Cummins, a career in diesel mechanics was never a question of if, but when. Long before joining Cummins, Paul was already familiar with the ...