The Basics Of The Starter System

A Word of Wisdom: Avoid jump starting other vehicles. The vehicle that has a dead battery may have an electrical short and in any of it's electrical component this may travel via the jumper cables to your vehicle. There is ways to perform a safe jump but leave it for the road service professionals.

• The starter makes the engine turn over.
• Once the engine is running gasoline flows from the fuel tank threw the fuel pump which pumps the fuel through the fuel lines to a fuel filter into the intake manifold.
• Each pound of fuel is mixed with air to form a vaporized mixture.
• The fuel & air mixture passes into the cylinders in your engine.
• Inside each cylinder is a piston, which fits snugly. This piston moves up trapping the fuel and air mixture in the upper part of the cylinder and compressing it into a very mall space.
• A spark from a spark plug ignites the fuel and air mixture, causing an explosion.
• The explosion forces the piston back down again, with more power then it went up with.
• Attached to the bottom of the piston is connecting rod, which is attached to a crankshaft which leads, eventually, to the drive wheels of your vehicle.
• As the piston and the connecting rod go up and down, they cause the crankshaft to turn.
• At the other end of the crankshaft is a box of gears called the transmission.

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