So your mechanic said your balance shaft gear is starting to wear out, and it got you thinking: What even is a balance shaft, and why do I need one? Do I need one? Is that even a real car part, or is ...

Shaking engines aren’t desirable, so we try to remove these forces. It’s easy to understand that as the piston comes to the top and stops, it sends an upward force, called a primary force.

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

insights from industryKen AmeikaGlobal Director of the PBS Products Division MTI Instruments AZoM spoke to Ken Ameika, the Global Director of the PBS Products Division for MTI Instruments, about how ...

In a patent application filed on July 23, 2020, Harley-Davidson outlined some key elements of a new air-cooled V-twin engine design. The patent itself regards a crankshaft balancer system, which may ...

Linamar has been granted a patent for an innovative engine balance shaft designed for internal combustion engines. The shaft features a hydroformed hollow tube that reduces mass and rotational inertia ...

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