Preface to the first edition |
Preface to the second edition |
Vehicle body and chassis layout / 1: |
The motor car / 1.1: |
Commercial vehicles / 1.2: |
Chassis construction / 1.3: |
Vehicle components and their methods of attachment and location / 1.4: |
Comparison of major component layouts / 1.5: |
Seat location and securing / 1.6: |
Seat-belt location, fitting points and operation / 1.7: |
Jacks and jacking points / 1.8: |
The friction clutch / 2: |
The purpose of a clutch / 2.1: |
Description and operation of a multi-coil spring clutch unit / 2.2: |
Cushioned driven-plate with torsional vibration damper / 2.3: |
Clutch operating linkage / 2.4: |
Clutch faults, causes and remedies / 2.5: |
Gearbox construction and operation / 3: |
The purpose of the gearbox / 3.1: |
Four-speed sliding-mesh and constant-mesh gearboxes / 3.2: |
Rod-and-fork gear selectors / 3.3: |
Spring-loaded ball or plunger and selector-rod grooves / 3.4: |
The need for a gear interlocking device / 3.5: |
Positive baulk-ring synchromesh unit / 3.6: |
Gearbox lubrication / 3.7: |
Gearbox oil-leakage prevention / 3.8: |
Automatic transmission / 4: |
Hydrokinetic fluid coupling / 4.1: |
Hydrokinetic torque converter-coupling / 4.2: |
Sprag-type free-wheel one-way clutch / 4.3: |
Torque converter lock-up clutch / 4.4: |
Epicycle gear train / 4.5: |
Four-speed and reverse transaxle automatic transmission mechanical power flow (Nissan Primera) / 4.6: |
Hydraulic automatic gear change control system / 4.7: |
A four-speed and reverse simplified hydraulic control system / 4.8: |
Propeller shafts, universal joints and constant velocity joints / 5: |
Propeller shaft / 5.1: |
Hooke's universal joint / 5.2: |
Universal-joint needle-bearing lubrication / 5.3: |
Propeller-shaft slip-joint / 5.4: |
Series-coupled universal joints / 5.5: |
Propeller-shaft vibration / 5.6: |
Divided propeller shafts and their support / 5.7: |
Universal- and slip-joint alignment / 5.8: |
Constant velocity joints / 5.9: |
Rubber universal couplings / 5.10: |
The final drive and four-wheel drive / 6: |
The purpose of the final-drive gears / 6.1: |
Types of final-drive gearing / 6.2: |
The need for final-drive differential gearing / 6.3: |
Rear-axle half-shaft and hub arrangements / 6.4: |
Differential lock / 6.5: |
Four-wheel drive / 6.6: |
Suspension, road-wheels and tyres / 7: |
Semi-elliptic leaf springs / 7.1: |
Rigid-axle-beam suspension / 7.2: |
Independent front suspension / 7.3: |
Benefits and limitations of independent front suspension / 7.4: |
Construction and action of independent front suspension / 7.5: |
Antiroll bars / 7.6: |
Telescopic-shock-absorber damper / 7.7: |
Rear suspension / 7.8: |
Axle beam non-drive rear suspension / 7.9: |
Rear independent suspension / 7.10: |
Tandem axle leaf spring suspension / 7.11: |
Rubber spring mounted on a balance-beam with leading and trailing torque-rod suspension / 7.12: |
Air spring suspension / 7.13: |
Road-wheels / 7.14: |
Pneumatic-tyre construction / 7.15: |
Legal and technical requirements when using cross- and radial-ply tyres / 7.16: |
Tyre sizes and designations / 7.17: |
Tyre valves / 7.18: |
Safety precautions in tyre maintenance / 7.19: |
Tyre inflation pressure / 7.20: |
Wheel balance / 7.21: |
Steering systems / 8: |
Steering linkage arrangements / 8.1: |
The Ackermann principle as applied to steering linkage / 8.2: |
The need for front-wheel alignment / 8.3: |
Front-wheel toe-in or toe-out / 8.4: |
Track alignment and adjustment / 8.5: |
Rack-and-pinion steering assembly / 8.6: |
Steering gearbox / 8.7: |
Front-wheel bearing-hub assembly / 8.8: |
Independent suspension front-wheel drive hub and swivel-pin carrier assembly / 8.9: |
Power-assisted steering / 8.10: |
Brake systems / 9: |
Single-line hydraulic braking system / 9.1: |
Leading-and-trailing-shoe layout / 9.2: |
Cam-operated drum-brakes / 9.3: |
Wheel-cylinder shoe-expanders / 9.4: |
Wedge-operated shoe-expander units / 9.5: |
Shoe-adjusters / 9.6: |
Hand-brake linkage and mechanisms / 9.7: |
Disc and pad brakes / 9.8: |
Brake master-cylinders / 9.9: |
Brake bleeding / 9.10: |
Vacuum-assisted brake servo-unit / 9.11: |
Antilocking brake system (ABS) (Alfred-Teves) / 9.12: |
Air-operated power brakes / 9.13: |
Foundation brake and single-diaphragm wheel brake actuator / 9.14: |
Exhaust compression brake retarder / 9.15: |
Piston-engine cycles of operation / 10: |
The internal-combustion engine / 10.1: |
The two-stroke-cycle petrol engine / 10.2: |
Four-stroke-cycle-compression-ignition (diesel) engine / 10.3: |
Two-stroke-cycle diesel engine / 10.4: |
Comparison of spark-ignition and compression-ignition engines / 10.5: |
Engine-performance terminology / 10.6: |
Compression-ratio / 10.7: |
Multi-cylinder engine arrangements / 11: |
The need for more than one cylinder / 11.1: |
Cyclic torque and speed fluctuation / 11.2: |
Merits and limitations of single-and multi-cylinder engines / 11.3: |
Cylinder firing orders / 11.4: |
Single-cylinder arrangement / 11.5: |
In-line side-by-side twin-cylinder arrangement / 11.6: |
In-line 180[degree]-out-of-phase twin-cylinder arrangement / 11.7: |
Horizontally opposed twin-cylinder arrangement / 11.8: |
In-line three-cylinder arrangement / 11.9: |
In-line four-cylinder arrangement / 11.10: |
Horizontally opposed flat four-cylinder arrangement / 11.11: |
In-line five-cylinder arrangement / 11.12: |
In-line six-cylinder arrangement / 11.13: |
Horizontally opposed flat six-cylinder arrangement / 11.14: |
In-line straight eight-cylinder arrangement / 11.15: |
90[degree] 'V' twin-cylinder arrangement / 11.16: |
60[degree] 'V' four-cylinder arrangement / 11.17: |
60[degree] 'V' six-cylinder arrangement / 11.18: |
90[degree] 'V-eight' with single-plane crankshaft / 11.19: |
90[degree] 'V-eight' with two-plane or cruciform crankshaft / 11.20: |
Balancing of reciprocating components / 12: |
Reciprocating motion / 12.1: |
Four-cylinder chain drive parallel twin countershaft secondary force balancer / 12.2: |
Torsional crankshaft vibration / 12.3: |
Force imposed on the piston / 12.4: |
Journal bearing load considerations / 12.5: |
Engine and gearbox mountings / 12.6: |
Cylinder block and head construction / 13: |
The cylinder block / 13.1: |
The crankcase / 13.2: |
Camshaft location and support / 13.3: |
Cylinder-block materials / 13.4: |
The cylinder head / 13.5: |
Cylinder-head materials / 13.6: |
Stud and set-screw threaded cylinder-block holes / 13.7: |
The tightening-down of cylinder heads / 13.8: |
Cylinder-head gaskets / 13.9: |
Crankcase sump and baffle plates / 13.10: |
Cylinder-bore liners / 13.11: |
Dry cylinder liners / 13.12: |
Wet cylinder liners / 13.13: |
Removal and replacement of press-fit liners / 13.14: |
Combustion and combustion chamber design / 14: |
Spark ignition combustion process / 14.1: |
Compression ignition (diesel) combustion process / 14.2: |
Piston and connecting-rod assemblies / 15: |
Friction and heat distribution of the piston assembly / 15.1: |
Piston materials / 15.2: |
Piston nomenclature and design considerations / 15.3: |
Bi-metal strut position / 15.4: |
Piston-ring nomenclature / 15.5: |
Piston-ring action / 15.6: |
Piston-ring materials and methods of manufacture / 15.7: |
Piston and piston-ring working clearances / 15.8: |
Piston and connecting-rod gudgeon-pin joints / 15.9: |
Connecting-rod design, construction and materials / 15.10: |
Connecting-rod shell liner bearings / 15.11: |
Plain journal bearings / 15.12: |
Crankshaft construction / 16: |
Crankshaft nomenclature / 16.1: |
Crankshaft proportions / 16.2: |
Counterbalance weights / 16.3: |
Crankshaft oil-hole drillings / 16.4: |
Fan-belt pulley-to-crankshaft attachment / 16.5: |
Front and rear crankshaft oil-seals / 16.6: |
Flywheel-to-crankshaft attachment / 16.7: |
Crankshaft materials and heat treatments / 16.8: |
Crankshaft main-journal bearings / 16.9: |
Valve timing diagrams, cam design and camshaft drives / 17: |
Inlet and exhaust valve opening and closing periods / 17.1: |
Cam profile phases and valve opening and closing periods / 17.2: |
Variable valve lift and timing control / 17.3: |
Camshaft chain-belt and gear train drives / 17.4: |
Poppet-valve operating mechanisms / 18: |
The function of the valves and their arrangements / 18.1: |
Side camshaft with push-rod and rockers / 18.2: |
Tappet clearance adjustment for push-rod mechanisms / 18.3: |
Overhead camshaft (OHC) / 18.4: |
Tappet adjustment for direct-acting mechanisms / 18.5: |
Valve-actuating-gear requirements and considerations / 18.6: |
Advantages and disadvantages of the various valve mechanisms / 18.7: |
The poppet-valve / 18.8: |
Poppet-valve operating conditions / 18.9: |
Poppet-valve materials / 18.10: |
Valve guides / 18.11: |
Valve-seat insert rings / 18.12: |
Valve-spring retention / 18.13: |
Valve-rotators and spring retention / 18.14: |
Valve compression return-springs / 18.15: |
Automatic tappet clearance adjustment via a hydraulic element / 18.16: |
Engine lubrication system / 19: |
Wet-sump lubrication system / 19.1: |
The mechanics of friction and lubrication / 19.2: |
High-pressure oil-pumps / 19.3: |
Pressure-relief-valve control / 19.4: |
Oil filtration / 19.5: |
Engine oil-leakage prevention / 19.6: |
Dry sump lubrication system with liquid-to-liquid oil cooler / 19.7: |
Crankcase emission control / 19.8: |
Low oil pressure switch and warning light circuit / 19.9: |
Properties and selection of engine lubricants / 19.10: |
Correct maintenance of oil level / 19.11: |
Oil contamination and replacement intervals / 19.12: |
Cooling systems / 20: |
Engine heat distribution and the necessity for a cooling system / 20.1: |
Types of cooling systems / 20.2: |
Heat transfer in an indirect liquid-cooled engine system / 20.3: |
Comparison of air- and liquid-cooling systems / 20.4: |
Thermostat-controlled cooling systems / 20.5: |
Pressure radiator caps / 20.6: |
Cooling systems incorporating an expansion tank / 20.7: |
Antifreeze coolant solutions / 20.8: |
Engine core plugs / 20.9: |
Maintenance requirements of the cooling system and components / 20.10: |
Cross-flow cooling system with liquid-to-liquid oil cooler / 20.11: |
Air temperature sensing viscous fan coupling / 20.12: |
Cooling fan relay and thermal switch circuit / 20.13: |
Interior heating and ventilating system / 20.14: |
Air conditioning / 20.15: |
Petrol-engine carburation fuel system / 21: |
Layout of a petrol-engine fuel system / 21.1: |
Petrol feed pumps / 21.2: |
Carburation / 21.3: |
Constant choke single-barrel carburettor / 21.4: |
Compound-barrel differentially operated carburettor / 21.5: |
Constant-pressure or vacuum variable-choke carburettor / 21.6: |
Attitude of the choke tube / 21.7: |
Induction and exhaust manifolds / 21.8: |
Multi-carburettors / 21.9: |
Air-intake silencers and cleaners / 21.10: |
Petrol engine fuel injection systems / 22: |
Comparison of the various fuel supply systems / 22.1: |
Bosch KE-Jetronic multipoint petrol injection system / 22.2: |
Multipoint electronic petrol injection / 22.3: |
Single-point electronic petrol injection system / 22.4: |
An introduction to the electronic control unit / 22.5: |
Diesel-engine fuel injection systems / 23: |
Layout of a diesel-engine fuel system / 23.1: |
Plunger-type fuel lift pump / 23.2: |
In-line injection pump (CAV 'Minimec') / 23.3: |
Distributor-type injection pump (CAV 'DPA') / 23.4: |
Injector unit / 23.5: |
Electronically controlled unit pump-injector diesel fuel injection system / 23.6: |
Electronically controlled unit pump diesel injection system / 23.7: |
Electronically controlled unit common-rail diesel injection system / 23.8: |
Cold start starting aids / 23.9: |
Diesel-fuel filtration / 23.10: |
Induction/exhaust manifold-exhaust silencer and emission control / 23.11: |
Induction wave ram cylinder charging / 24.1: |
Supercharging / 24.2: |
Exhaust manifold configurations / 24.3: |
Exhaust gas emission control / 24.4: |
Exhaust gas silencers (mufflers) / 24.5: |
Fuel tank evaporation control / 24.6: |
Air intake temperature control / 24.7: |
Exhaust gas recirculation / 24.8: |
Air injected exhaust system / 24.9: |
Electrical wiring and lighting / 25: |
Electron theory / 25.1: |
Electrical units / 25.2: |
Basic vehicle wiring circuits / 25.3: |
Cables / 25.4: |
Cable colour code / 25.5: |
Cable connectors / 25.6: |
Printed circuits / 25.7: |
Fuses / 25.8: |
Light-bulb fundamentals / 25.9: |
Headlight reflectors / 25.10: |
Headlight arrangements / 25.11: |
Headlight cover lens / 25.12: |
Classification of light-bulbs / 25.13: |
Tungsten-halogen light-bulbs / 25.14: |
Light-bulb location and attachments / 25.15: |
Four-headlight system / 25.16: |
Headlight settings / 25.17: |
Coil ignition system / 26: |
Ignition considerations / 26.1: |
Ignition-system equipment / 26.2: |
Fundamental electromagnetism definitions / 26.3: |
Ignition-coil construction / 26.4: |
Capacitor function and operation / 26.5: |
Distributor contact-breaker construction / 26.6: |
Mechanical centrifugal advance device / 26.7: |
Manifold vacuum advance device / 26.8: |
Ignition timing / 26.9: |
Spark-plug function / 26.10: |
Transistors / 26.11: |
Electronic ignition control / 26.12: |
Batteries, generators and starter motors / 27: |
The lead-acid battery / 27.1: |
Generators / 27.2: |
Alternators / 27.3: |
Voltage regulator / 27.4: |
Dynamos / 27.5: |
Starter motors / 27.6: |
Electrical auxiliary equipment / 28: |
Instrument panel gauges and transmitter senders / 28.1: |
Direction indicators / 28.2: |
Windscreen wiper systems / 28.3: |
Power window winders / 28.4: |
Central door locking / 28.5: |
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