Drive It Forever: Your Key to Long Automobile Life

ISBN: 9780070575226

定价: 33.00

内容简介

he Engine Wears in
llore Ways Than One
!I.
mgme Wear
[11 automobile engines and other mechanical components of a car
~larough a three-stage life. When new??? they are subject to a very
~wear rate as parts mesh with each other and metal is shaved off
11 the parts find satisfactory mating surfaces. This initial stage of
It is relatively rapid but is nevertheless extremely important in
~ining the total life cycle of the involved parts. Once the parts
meshed properly??? a zone of minimum friction is established; the
~ism??? whether it be an engine??? transmission??? or differential??? goes
lugh a long period when measurable wear is almost nonexistent.
n at some point in this wear cycle??? as even this slow wear takes its
the mechanism enters stage three and finally begins to wear rapidly
eventually fails.
he main thrust of this book is simply this: to delay the onset of
three??? the final wearing-out process that takes place in an engine???
prolong stage two the steady??? slQw rate of almost unnoticeable