Component parts of internal combustion engines

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Component parts of internal combustion engines" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Internal combustion engines come in a wide variety of types, but have certain family resemblances, and thus share many common types of components.