Diesel engines like the 3.0L Duramax require special maintenance, including the use of DEF, or Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Now, GM ...

Everything you need to know about the small gap between valvetrain components that is essential to the health and performance ...

Once upon a time, most car engines used solid or mechanical lifters. But unlike most fairy tales that begin that way, there was no lasting happy ending for them. Hydraulic lifters first appeared in ...

Allyn started writing for TopSpeed in 2015, but has been writing on motorcycle and automotive topics since 2008 for outlets such as eHow, USAToday, and subsidiaries of MotorTrend. Formally trained as ...

Sorry, solid lifters, you make a wonderful typewriter clack and allow for intoxicatingly high rpms, but you can't be surprised that manufacturers slowly moved to ...

"There's no replacement for displacement!" This has been the battle cry of big block fans everywhere, and for good reason. A Chevy big block brings the thunder, whether you're roasting tires with a ...

Taking a closer look at my new engine while walking through the proper way to set valve lash. Precision matters when building power.#valvelash #engineinspection #cartech Alaskan volcano rumbling ...

Starting from iOS 18.1, you can set ChatGPT as the default search engine in Safari. Here's how to use the LLM service for your browser queries. While Apple currently doesn't provide a direct way to ...

Current heavy-duty diesel engines often lack a feature that is virtually standard in most other automotive engine applications: hydraulic valve-lash adjustment, or hydraulic lifters as they are ...