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CAR ACCESSORIES, SPARE PARTS AND TOOLS
Welcome to this presentation of good online warehouses of affordable car equipment and spare parts, and some products from these warehouses. The warehouses have a general stock of all types of car equipment, but each is strong in certain filelds indicated by the descriptions. Please click on the banners or links to find the product you are searching for.
Further down there is some information about the coolong system of cars.
4Wheel Parts - Parts for offroad vehicles and equipment for offroad use
- This is a great store of offroad equipment. Here are presented links to some of the products. If you want to browse the whole store to look at more products, you can click at any of the links.
Warn Power Pivot
MasterCraft Safety Baja RS Reclining Seat with Seat Heater and Adjustable Lumbar by MasterCraft® 5080086006
Fox Shocks 2.0 Series w/Reservoir
Basic mechanical and electric parts for all car models - performance enhancement This store has a huge stock of those basic parts that make the car move and makes it possible to controle. The store has also a huge variety of equipment that makes your car a functional tool in your work and freetime, laike cargo containers and cargo handlers of various types. You can find these products in original versions or third party for all car models of all brands, new models and old models.
There are parts for the electric furnishment, motor, fuel lines, gear and transmission, exhaust system, air intake, stearing, brakes, suspension and all other important functional parts of the car.
Internal and external car equipment, car electronics, GPS navigation - By clicking at the banner below, you will find a great collection of accessories for your car, like lanterns, antennas, auto radio / stereo / music, communication electronics, security equipment, GPS nevigation equipment, dashboard equipment, car body parts, washers, window accessories, interior styling, bags, tool boxes, interior lights, parts for the heater and cooler system, seat equipment and more. You also find workshop tools and parts for higher car performance and higher class functions.
Ebooks reading, materials and elecronic media about cars and other motor vehicles -
By clicking at tese links you can buy these ebooks for immediate uploading to your computer. When going through these links you can also browse for many other eboooks about vehicles and any other subject, like Modern and classic cars, auto racing, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, trains, boats, aviation, military history, bicycles, americana, and collectibles.
Security products for vehicles, homes and workplaces
- This is a general store of security products for vehicles and all other areas. Here you can find everyting you need for allarm and surveillance of cars and garages and all things the driver of a car needs to keep himself or herself secure for dangers that are luring.
A general low price warehouse with a lot of vehicle electronics
like GPS and audio-video - This is a general warehouse with a lot of car items, and especially care electronics.
Comodities for your use in your cars or on journeys - By clicking at the banner below, you will find a great collection of comodities for your car, or comodities to bring with you on tours, lke tools, lanterns, Auto radio / stereo / music, communication electronics, security equipment, nevigation equipment, interior commodities, bags, seat equipment and more. There are also technical repair parts and performance parts, for example parts for the cooler system and heater.
You also find every kind of tools you need to work on your car: Mechanical tools, electric adjustments instruments, mechanical diagnostic equipment, electric diagnostic equipment, styling tools, painting equipment and more. Examples.
Product examples
Model cars and other hobby gear
Speedy nitro and electric rc model cars
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R
edcats - nitro and electric powered
Xenonproject.com - Large store mith all possible types of remote controle models -
A great store of radio controled helicopters
Electric and nitro remote control cars and other hobby items:
The battery technology is by now so advanced that it is possible to make electric flying remote control hobby aircrafts that are able to hover in 20 min - 1 hour between each charge-up, and these models are not expensive. Because of the electric battery technology and easy controls, there exist hobby RC aircrafts suited for both indoor and outdoor use, and suited for every age and experience level. By clicking at this link you can buy the exhibited product and browse for all the other hobby products in the store.
Electric
remote control cars, helicopters and other hobby items - This is another great general hobby item store, but with somewhat different fabricants in the stock.
RC helicopters, airplanes, cars, electronic sets, chemistry sets, airsoft guns and other hobby items
Vitamins. minerals, anti-oxidants, glyconutrients, noni, acai mangosteen and other supplements
Products against erection problems or to improve male and female sexual, please click here
roducts to help for specific common diseases, pleace click hereSkincare, natural drugs for skin problems, quality cosmetics, anti-aging products, fashion
Information resources for our visitors - Here are some advices about car cooler systems and car coolants. To find other information resources, please go to this page
About the coolant system and its role.
At best only 30% of the energy from consumed fuel goes to driving the car. The rest is released as heat. The engine is working best at a certain temperature. When this temperature is reached the heat produced must must somehow be brought away from the engine and its environment.
The coolant system let the engine heat up to that temperature and thereafter it takes away all the produced heat not necessary to hold the engine at the right temperature. Some of the excessive heat can then be used to heat the cabin and the rest is spilled out.
Water is pumped through the whole coolant system in a circular manner.
The water pump is a cetrifugal pump driven by a belt connected to the crankshaft of the engine. The water goes into the pump near the cente and is pushed by a fan inside the pump to the periphery inside the pump and out again to a tube leading into a channel system in the engine.
One important part of the system is the system of channels through the engine. The water from the pump is driven through these channels. When it enters the channels, the temperature is fairly low. In its way through the channels the water takes up heat from the engine and cools it. The water leaving the motor has the temperature of the metallic block of the engine. Usually the water first goes through channals around the cylinders and then through channals in the cylinder head.
At the place where the fluid leaves the motor, it also goes through the thermostat. This device measures the tempersature in the water, and it can send the water in two directions, either to the radiator or in a tube back to the pump. By sending the right amount of water in the two driections it can regulate the coolant effect and thereby the temperature of the engine.
The water from the engine then goes into the radiator. The radiator consists of a system of many thin tubes or channels spaced apart so that air can flow between the tubes. The air between the tubes takes up the heat so that the water leaving the radiator is well cooled down.
At one of the sides of the radiator there is a fan. The fan can be electrically driven or driven by the belt coupled to the crankshaft. The fan blows the cooling air through the radiator.
There is another system taking heat from the engine, that is the cabin heater system. Some fluid from the cylinder head goes into the heater system. The heater consists of a radiator with an electric fan. The fan blows air through this radiator into the cabin where it is distributed by means of a system of channels. The fluid then goes back to the pump.
About air-cooled engines
In the 50-eths nd 69-eths air-cooled aniges were commonly produced, among which where the WW Beetles, the most widely produced cars ever.
Air cooling is in many ways simpler than water cooling. The air circulates around the motor parts and there are ribs and fins that bring the heat out to come in contact with the air and that direct the air along all parts of the mashinery. A fan in front of the motor blows air in the right direction towards the mashinery. In orther to keep the cooling at the right level, the speed of the fan must be regulated by the thermostat. This is most easily done if the fan is driven electrically.
Air-cooling is also in some ways more reliant than water-cooling, since the system is not susceptible for breakage or leakage in the tubes and channals an have fewer mechanical parts. It is also as efficient as water-cooling.
However the effect of air-cooling is more difficult to controle. The speed of the air through the motor-room is also determined by the speed of the car and it is difficult for the fan to ajust to all swings in air flow rate occuring because of car speed and external conditions. Therefore it is difficult to constantly hold air-cooled engines at an optimal temperature.
Air-cooling also makes much more noise by the air streaming along and aginst all kinds of constructions.
In an air-cooled car, the techical components in the moror room must also have more space between them, making it difficult to construct a compact motor room.
Because of these problems, air-cooling is not much used in car construction anymore, but are still much used for motorcycles and for aircraft engines.
If Your Car Engine is Starved For Coolant, it Will "Seize Up", Another Way of Saying "I Quit"
Most of us know from watching the old Western
movies that the old steam locomotives had a big cylinder full of water; when it
started to boil and the pressure began to rise, the space above the water filled
with “steam”, which is really not accurate; it was really full of hot water
vapor. Actual steam is invisible. What we call steam is really hot water vapor.
The engine and coolant system is really a simple boiler
Car engines operate on the same principal as a locomotive steam engine boiler. The difference is that instead of heating the water (coolant) with firewood or coal, we heat it with the hot engine where ignition is taking place inside of the cylinders at 2,000oF.
Modern car engine coolant systems are operated at about 220o F; which is above the 212oF that causes water to boil at sea level
As the coolant temperate exceeds 212oF, it begins to turn to steam and the pressure rises.. That means empty areas or volumes above the coolant levels will be filled with pressurized “steam”. The hot engine continues to add heat to the coolant until the coolant reaches about 220oF. The water pump continually moves the coolant around the engine cylinder block until the coolant temperature reaches about 212oF
Now the radiator starts to function
A temperature sensitive value now opens in the radiator, allowing the hot coolant to be pumped into the radiator where the air being pushed out of the way by the moving car will hopefully be enough to cool down the coolant enough to limit its temperature to 220oF. But the pressure in the entire coolant system now is greater than the outside air we are breathing. That means the coolant wants to get out, and it will, through any tiny crack it can find. Eventually some will get out and the coolant supply will decrease. If it decreases enough, the engine cannot be cooled enough and engine parts will expand and “seize”, ruining the engine.
How to avoid an overheated engine
To avoid this problem, the engine system has a clever makeup coolant tank connected to it through a check valve.`
What’s a check valve?
Here’s how to make one in your kitchen and see how one works. Take a throwaway plastic cup and make a round hole in its bottom. Take a round marble bigger than the hole and dump a lot of kitchen cleanser around the hole in the cup; then take the marble and rub it around the hole until it really make a nice round seat in the hole.
Now fill the cup half full of water. If you did a good job no water will sneak around the marble and drip out of the bottom of the cup. Hooray!
Now take your finger and slightly lift up the marble from beneath the cup, raising it slightly above the seat you created by scrubbing with cleanser (do it over the sink) and water will leak out on your finger.
You have just made a
one-way check valve
The coolant makeup tank has such a check valve in it but also has a
spring to keep the ball pressed down on the valve seat. That side is toward the
radiator, so that coolant under pressure cannot push back into the coolant
makeup tank, which is under atmospheric pressure.
What happens when the car cools down?
When the coolant in the engine and radiator cools down to below boiling temperature, the steam that was above the liquid coolant will condense (turn back to water or coolant) and the coolant system will have a pressure that is less than the outside pressure of the air you are breathing………………a vacuum will form in the coolant system. Now it gets exciting.
The cycle reverses
While the engine was running, the hot coolant wanted to get out; but now that it has cooled down, the outside pressure (what you’re breathing) is more than the pressure in the coolant system (that includes the entire engine, the radiator and all the connecting hoses).
When this happens, the check value in the coolant is pushed by atmospheric pressure (the radiator side of this valve is simultaneously being “sucked” on by the vacuum in the coolant system), and fresh makeup coolant is pushed into the radiator, thereby replenishing coolant to normal.
So every time you stop and car and let the engine cool down, the whole system automatically restores the coolant level to normal without any driver assistance. Magic? You bet.
Maintenance
Always keep the coolant makeup reservoir at least half full. It’s usually under the hood in a plastic tank, nestled against the inside of one of the front fenders, and the coolant is always colored (in winter) so the level can be easily monitored.
Something to think about: The hot air you arrange to below on your feet, inside the car, is really inside air blowing across a very small radiator, just like the big job in front. It too goes through the same pressure increases and decreases as does the whole coolant system, since it is part of it.
So don’t ever kick with a sharp toe if you’re mad at it while the engine is running, or you will get a free bath of really, really hot, coolant water sprayed all over your feet.
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Article author
Ralph Hoffmann graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin, majoring in Applied
Mathematics. He has ten years experience raising venture capital plus added
business experience and has used his math and additional business background to
develop web site
http://www.AutoTruckData.com for anyone intending to lease or purchase a new car.
Note: He's completely rebuilt three car engines, hands-on, and knows the difference between hydraulic valve lifters and tappets. He also writes on other automotive issues.
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