Every new internal combustion car and truck sold in America today is equipped with a four-stroke engine, as are the vast ...

Learn more about how 2-stroke and 4-stroke engines work, as well as their differences. Our team of experts prepared a guide about everything you need to know about 2- and 4-stroke engines.

Since two-stroke engines are more polluting, they were banned for most street motorcycles. Still, they are used on lighter applications such as lawnmowers, generators, or go-karts.

In contrast, Cummins has always been famous for their four-stroke diesels. Four-stroke diesel engines have dedicated piston strokes for intake, compression, power, and exhaust processes.

Air flowing into a four-stroke diesel engine gets cleaned as it passes through the air filter. It then flows through tubing until it is compressed in the spinning blades of the turbo. As a result ...

In four-stroke engines, the air and fuel mixture only takes up the area of the cylinder above the piston, while in two-stroke engines, the mixture is present above and below the piston.

Ford Power Stroke Diesel Engines To Avoid. We didn't talk about the 6.4-liter Power Stroke (2007 to 2010) because if there were a problem child in the family of Power Stroke turbodiesel engines ...

A Closer Look at 4 Stroke Engines. This is how a 4-stroke engine works. (Photo/fauzan/Adobe Stock) 4 Stroke Pros. More efficient than a 2 stroke. Quieter than a 2 stroke. No need to mix fuel and oil.

Which is cheaper to maintain, a 2-stroke or 4-stroke? This depends on the age of the outboard motor and the number of hours on it. But generally speaking, two-stroke engines are cheaper and easier to ...