We all know how a conventional internal combustion engine works, with a piston and a crankshaft. But that’s by no means the only way to make an engine, and one of the slightly more unusual ...

A camshaft uses egg-shaped "cams" to open and close engine valves (one cam per valve), while a crankshaft converts "cranks" (the up/down motion of the pistons) to rotational motion. Located in the ...

In the video after the break, [Brick Technology] uses LEGO to gain some practical insight into the world of piston engine design ... back and forth as the crankshaft rotates.

General Motors is scrambling to rectify the engine failures for its 6.2-liter V8 truck engine – one of which bit the dust ...

Why are there four? And what is a stroke, anyway? A modern gas engine most commonly uses pistons and a crankshaft to power the wheels of a car or truck. The piston is basically a round thing on a ...

Then it's placed inside the piston and the pin connects the two components. Now, the engine can finally be assembled. First, the crankshaft is bolted onto the block. Then the piston is pushed into ...

or in diesel engines, the compression of the air/fuel mixture ignites itself This reaction causes each piston to push down and continue spinning the crankshaft As the piston comes back up inside the ...