This illustration shows the spring's relationship to the valve. The valve stem goes through the middle of the spring and is positively connected to it by the retainer and two valve locks (also known ...

Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...

Obviously, these valve-control-related issues, associated with insufficient valvespring pressure, are the reason why camshaft manufacturers offer valvespring upgrades. The obvious answer might seem to ...

Today, high-performance clutch design is so sophisticated, and manufacturers' claims often so conflicting, that it's difficult to know just what type of clutch is best for your particular application.

When a design calls for an industrial gas spring, there’s a wide range of standard, off-the-shelf products available from various manufacturers. But ordering a gas spring from a catalog comes with a ...

The thermostatic expansion valve (TXV) is a refrigerant metering device that constantly modulates and meters just enough liquid refrigerant from the liquid line into the evaporator to satisfy all heat ...

The cost of high head pressure in industrial refrigeration systems has been well documented over the years. If a system has been properly designed, installed, and maintained, then considerable energy ...