Quick-lube oil changes use $3 filters without anti-drainback valves, causing dry starts that grind metal and destroy engines ...

It might seem like a bad move, but there are two major reasons why automakers are fitting their cars with plastic valve ...

The oil in your vehicle’s engine is pretty incredible. Its job is to protect every square inch inside your engine where there is metal-to-metal contact – your piston rings, cylinder walls, valves, ...

While fresh oil is generally transparent and amber colored, black oil may mean it's time for a replacement and frothy oil can ...

Time was when a valve job was done with some valve-grinding compound and a vacuum cup on a stick. But no more. Today's high performance engines require the same machining precision in the valves that ...

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

General Motors has filed a new patent that offers a look at how the company may be rethinking cylinder deactivation for its ...

Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night worried that you have never, ever changed the oil on your two-stroke lawnmower? Well, you can relax. A two-stroke oil change is like a left-handed ...

My car recently has started this phenomenon of burning through oil when I go up steep grades (such as going up mountain passes). For example, in the last month I've burned a quart of oil out of my ...