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human
When an engine is overloaded and can't pull the load, what happens inside the cylinders?

Do the explosions still keep happening?
gpt
The detonations that take place in the cylinders can only do so while the engine is spinning. When you stall an engine by overloading it you stop the rotation of the crank, stopping the pistons from moving up and down and stopping the sequence of events that leads to more combustion cycles. Even in modern e.f.i. Engines there is sensors tell the injectors when to fire. There won't just keep shooting fuel into a cylinder that isn't cycling anymore.