What does it do, and where is it at in the engine.
What is a cam for too?
2007-02-12 12:29:06 · 5 answers · asked by Metal 4 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Other - Cars & Transportation
A flywheel is connected to the crankshaft. It is how the power gets transferred to the transmission. The starter turns the flywheel to start the engine, also. It is at the back of the engine. On a front wheel drive car where the engine is sideways, it is on either side, depending on where the transmission is. It's between the tranny and the engine.
A camshaft spins at half the speed of the crankshaft and has lobes on it to open and close the valves that allow air and fuel in and exhaust out.
Definitely go to www.howstuffworks.com and look up car engines.
2007-02-12 12:34:30 · answer #1 · answered by M333 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It keeps the engine running smoothly. At the application of power from 1 cylinder that has fired, in a 4 cylinder engine you have 3 other cylinders that are doing nothing at all to provide power to the crankshaft. That flywheel provides the "oomph", or kinetic energy to keep the drive shaft spinning until the next cylinder fires in the firing order of the engine. If there was no flywheel then the engine might not run at all. or at best it would be a very rough ride. If you have ever been in a car with bad valves, you might get an idea of what not having a flywheel might feel like. At slow speeds, the engine would feel like it was trying to shake the car apart. The flywheel is exactly where it needs to be. True, it doesn't do much for for delivering power, or so it would seem, but without it, things would be much different. I suggest that you look a lot deeper into the reasons that an engine is built the way it is, who knows, you might learn something.
2016-05-24 03:08:00 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The flywheel is located at the rear of most motors. Their 3 main purposes are, to provide a gear that the starter can turn, provide inertia for the crankshaft, and couple the transmission to the motor.
The cam is the brain for the valves. Basically it opens the intake and exhaust valves.
2007-02-12 12:36:01 · answer #3 · answered by mad_mav70 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The flywheel is a multipurpose component.On cars with automatic transmissions it has a ring-gear around it that the starter engages with to start the engine, it also has small weights welded to it to help balance the engine as it runs.It bolts to the transmission torque converter which in turn pumps the trans-fluid in a automatic trans.to make the car go.
In a car that has a manual(stick shift)transmission it has a ring- gear around it to start the engine when the starter is in-gaged,the side towards the transmission is polished perfectly smooth where the clutch pressure plate assembly bolts to it.The pressure plate assembly is what makes the car go when you take your foot off the clutch peddle.
2007-02-12 13:17:37 · answer #4 · answered by cyhntr 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A flywheel is a heavy rotating disk used as a storage device for kinetic energy. Flywheels resist changes in their rotational speed, which helps steady the rotation of the shaft when an uneven torque is exerted on it by its power source such as a piston-based (reciprocating) engine, or when the load placed on it is intermittent (such as a piston pump).
(wikipedia)
Located on the rear of the engine.
2007-02-12 12:52:28 · answer #5 · answered by Trump 2020 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋