As a car owner, you’re likely to run into your fair share of engine issues. While some are rarer than others, you could experience oil leaks, overheating, and multiple other things. These problems ...
Your timing belt makes sure the different parts of your engine move in sync, and if it starts to fail, you’ll want to replace it as soon as possible. But what will that cost? Will your warranty help?
Q. We recently purchased a very clean 15-year-old, four-cylinder Toyota Corolla. The car has only 51,000 miles on it. When we took it in for service, we were informed that the timing chain needs to be ...
Unless you own a Yugo, you probably already realize that your car’s engine is a meticulously designed and engineered hunk of metal. Even so, you may not know that if one part of the engine fails, it ...
Every engine has a means of coordinating the timing between the valve train and the rest of the engine. Some engines use a timing chain and some a timing belt. A timing belt has the relatively ...
No matter whether you’re changing a belt for maintenance issues or a timing chain for running issues, you need to be careful.
Chrysler has recalled the timing chain assemblies in just over 50,000 5.7-liter Hemi-equipped Dodge Challengers, Dodge Chargers, and Chrysler 300C models built between 2009 and 2012. (SRT vehicles are ...
As engines get older and clock in the miles, a lot of wear starts to happen. Seals start to go, belts snap, and pipes clog up. Timing chains, a metal linkage that syncs the rotation of the engine, ...
Replacing the timing chain tensioner in my Honda S2000. The type of chain, made by Borg Warner, is called a silent chain. It ...
Endurance Warranty, Omega Auto Care, Toco Warranty and American Dream Auto Protect We all need something to keep us running. For some people, that’s a cup of coffee in the morning. And for your car?
If you have an internal combustion engine that actually runs, then your camshafts are spinning twice as fast as your crankshaft. Change the rate at which either of the two spins in relation to one ...