Cars - For Car Enthusiasts

3907 readers

54 users here now

About Community

c/Cars is the largest automotive enthusiast community on Lemmy and the fediverse. We're your central hub for vehicle-related discussion, industry news, reviews, projects, DIY guides, advice, stories, and more.

Rules

Stay respectful to the community, hold civil discussions, even when others hold opinions that may differ from yours.

This is not an NSFW community, and any such content will not be tolerated.

Policy, not politics! Policy discussions revolve around the concept; political discussions revolve around the individual, party, association, etc. We only allow POLICY discussions and political discussions should go to c/politics.

Must be related to cars, anything that does not have connection to cars will be considered spam/irrelevant and is subject to removal.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Where to learn about engines? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Hello! Don’t know if this is the right community to post this question, but maybe you can help.

I want to learn about cars and engines. I’m a pretty mechanical person and I like to tinker. I can do basics, like changing my own oil etc.

I want to do some hands on learning, but I don’t have a ton of money to spend or space to work in. I was wondering if you had suggestions on something small and affordable I can get to learn about engines. I was thinking a lawn mower or a scooter but I don’t know how similar those would be to a car.

Do you have any advice?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I haven't seen a 2-stroke mower in over 40 years.

Those are some great ideas about finding a non-running engine for free, tear it down and see how it works.

Seeing the crank rotate, the piston move, and the cam timing the valves opening - that was fun to do as a kid.