Does Low Oil Pressure Cause Engine Ticking Sounds?

Posted on April 20, 2011 by guestposter

Have you ever encountered ticking sound coming from your car engine? If yes, then this only means that your car is suffering from poor engine lubrication. When the engine is lubricated poorly the components will have direct contact with each other, this direct contact will creates sound like ticking while the engine is operational. The engine is lubricated by the engine oil, when the engine do not have enough engine oil some of the components will not get fully lubricated causing a ticking sound that is noticeable by the driver. So, when you heard ticking noise from the engine the first thing to check is the amount of engine oil inside the engine, you can check it by looking at the dip gauge located under the hood, you can check out the car owner’s manual on how to check the amount of engine oil inside the engine.

If there is enough amount of oil inside the engine then insufficient oil is not the cause of the problem. Other reason that can cause ticking is when oil pressure is low. As you may not know oil pressure is what keeping the engine to get fully lubricated when the oil pressure is not enough some of the engine component will not get the necessary lubrication to make it function properly and each engine component like the rocker arms, valve stems, or valve lifters will have direct contact and rub each other hence a sound will produced. You can confirm if the oil pressure is low by looking at the oil light on the dash board, if the oil light is on while the ticking occurs then pressure is low.

If the oil light do not come on then oil pressure is sufficient to cause lubrication of the engine including its components, therefore there might be other reason why the engine is ticking and probably there is a loose valves or leaking exhaust manifold that causes the problem. To confirm this problem bring your car to the car shop for checking

The Smoke of Car is Blue

Posted on April 15, 2011 by guestposter

Car exhaust can tell the problem of your car like when blue smoke from exhaust can be notice while driving. When there is smoke with blue color coming out the tail pipe of car one thing is sure, the engine burns oil inside the combustion chambers. Why is the engine burning oil? Well several reasons why an engine burns oil and this can be identify depending on the condition.

When you notice the car to loss power while driving uphill aside from the blue smoke from exhaust then the symptoms can be traced to a bad rings. Engine has component we call ring inside it, the purpose of the ring is to prevent the engine oil from getting inside the combustion chambers. Since the ring serves as seal for keeping the oil inside the chambers therefore when the ring is bad, small amount of oil will leak inside the chambers, this oil will then burn out the result is a blue smoke from exhaust comes out the tail pipe. How is a bad ring affecting the power? Well, when the ring is bad the engine compression will become weak, as you may not know compression is so important for the engines to generate power, if the compression is weak engine power will also become weak, this weak power can easily be noticeable especially when driving uphill.

When you encounter a blue smoke from your car tail pipe, bring the car immediately to the car shop that specializes in engine repair then ask the mechanic to check the ring the mechanic will probably conduct wet compression test to confirm if the engine has a bad rings. If the problem is indeed a bad ring then ready yourself for a costly repair. However, if the car is still under warranty then no need to worry since your car will be covered. But also consider engine replacement as alternative for repairing bad ring because sometimes it is cheaper to replace the engine than doing the bad ring repair. Check your option before agreeing with the mechanic recommendations to avoid costly repair.

Greener Cars May Start with the Interior

Posted on October 28, 2010 by auto news

Hybrid cars offer a greener choice by reducing the dependence on oil and hydrocarbon pollution. However, there is great public debate if going to a 100% electric car fleet actually creates a greener environment since the burden of supplying the energy is now shifted towards polluting power plants.

While it may take decades for clean energy producing power stations to come online to sustain such an automobile fleet, we need to face the fact that the internal combustion engine will be with us for at least another 50 years.

Regardless of the car’s power train, the manufacture process is highly dependent on the use of oil for interior plastic components. Automobile makers such as Toyota are actively perusing ‘ecological plastics’ that are carbon neutral since the source of the oil is from renewable plant materials.

Toyota’s has been engaged in biological based petroleum plastics, or Bio-PET, since 2000 and has produced an ecological plastic that is heat and shrink resistant with high durability compared to convention bio-plastics. Bio-Pet is made by replacing the monoethylene glycol with a biological raw material from cane sugar.

Starting with 2011 the Lexus CT 200h, Toyota will manufacture the luggage compartment liner using Bio-PET. Toyota plans to increase the number of vehicle series featuring this new material. One new model will derive 80% of the interior plastics from Bio-PET.

As Toyota and other automobile manufacturers move towards the use of bio-plastics, both the environment and company’s bottom line should be improved. Bio-plastics are not as dependent on wild oil price fluctuations making the manufacturing cost of the interior components more predictable. Yet the source of bio-engineered materials is plants and is subject to crops shortages and agricultural conditions.

But the future looks bright green as car makers produce more efficient hybrid and electric vehicles while using biological materials inside the car’s interior.