The crankshaft position sensor is the most important of all engine management sensors, and the engine will absolutely not run without it.

Related: The crankshaft position sensor, typically mounted near or on the crankshaft, tells the engine computer how fast the engine is running.

The engine's crankshaft position sensor plays a vital role in ensuring your vehicle is performing at its best. Here are five warning signs that it is bad.

Your vehicle's crankshaft sensor can be, well, cranky. But it's also a key part you can't do without. So what makes one fail? And how do you know if it's bad?

This paper describes a dual-track magnetic crankshaft and camshaft position sensor configuration. It uses semiconductor sensors such as magnetoresistors to pick up the magnetic flux modulation created ...