An engine depends on perfect timing the same way a symphony depends on a conductor. Every valve opens at the exact moment it should, every piston moves in perfect rhythm, and everything stays ...

Harbor Freight sells two versions of its Predator 212 engine with differing horsepower outputs. Both are four-stroke designs featuring horizontal crankshafts, recoil pull-start, and 212cc ...

Today’s cars and trucks are literally rolling test beds of technology, which has tended to make the days of the so-called shade tree mechanic and eyeball diagnoses of what ails a given model a distant ...

Diesel engines, for all their rugged usefulness, can be tremendously polluting. They produce more NOx — nitrogen oxides-based emissions – than gasoline-fed cars, as well as more particulates, aka soot ...

Today’s cars, trucks, and SUVs are equipped with onboard diagnostic systems that can detect when a problem occurs and will flash an alert to the driver that a glitch exists. A vehicle’s brakes, ...

GM's L87 internal code for its 6.2-liter V8 engine is starting to look like a score, not a name. No, the number of lawsuits on the recalled engine isn't up to 87 just yet. But the number is growing.