Do-it-yourself maintenance is an endless list of learning the basics. From lifting up and supporting a car to general engine maintenance, there’s always a first attempt that builds up competency and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Internal combustion engines are impressive machines, but they can't function on their own. Numerous vehicle systems and various automotive ...

Your car’s head gasket probably never comes to mind until something goes wrong. Since this is the piece that is between your cylinder heads and the cylinder block, it’s a fairly vital part that ...

Gaskets. At a glance they seem unimportant, yet without them, fluids would leak from every joint, fuel would spew, and flaming gases would explode from every crevice once the spark plug flashed.

The Chevrolet small-block engine was a brilliant piece of engineering, attested by the fact that well over 100,000,000 have been built. However the first generation was not as oil-tight as later ...