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 ...

There are many advantages that make 5.9L Cummins-powered '98 1/2 to '02 Dodge Rams very desirable trucks—especially from an engine standpoint. First, the engines don't have the killer dowel pin ...

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, Section 3: JOURNAL OF ENGINES (1995), pp. 112-127 (16 pages) A computer model solving the 1-D flow in a typical fuel injection system for direct-injection diesel engines is ...

The 12V Cummins diesel engine compares to the 24V version as a simpler model. The 24V engine received numerous upgrades and ...

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 ...

Diesel engines do their hardest work in the toughest jobs, from highway semis to construction equipment, and the reason they ...