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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Some people have described the Ford 5.4L Triton engine as "one of the worst V8's ever produced." And while it didn't make it onto our list of ...

There's an interesting bit of history behind the Chrysler 2.4 Tigershark engine. Chrysler established the Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance (GEMA) with Hyundai and Mitsubishi in 2002, a partnership ...

Do you know what a timing belt or a timing chain is and what they do? Could you find them on your vehicle's engine if you had to? If you answered no, don't sweat it. Both are buried behind a lot of ...

According to the 2025 J.D. Power Vehicle Dependability Study (VDS), Subaru is ranked as the 17th most reliable brand out there. This represents a somewhat worse result compared to 2024's VDS in which ...

Within the Pontiac community, there are many who are very good at physically working on their cars. Changing parts, swinging motors, and the like comes very naturally to them. But when chasing a ...

In June 2014, we published the account of how we became aware of a defect with FCA's (now Stellantis) 5.7-liter Hemi engine. Specifically, it concerned 5.7L Hemis installed in Dodge Chargers and ...

Like the trucks themselves, there also are many engines included in the long, rich history of Ford pickups, one of the biggest being the Power Stroke line of diesel engines. Some are iconic, ...

You recently wrote about a guy whose timing belt broke and who tried to restart his car but whose valves survived only through sheer good luck. In 1957, I had a new Ford six-cylinder, standard shift.