Although engine oil enters cars as a yellow liquid, you'll almost always find its color to be brown or black when it's being ...

To fully understand oil, it helps to understand what’s happening under the hood. An engine has cylinders inside – for example (and obviously), a four-cylinder engine has four of them. Each cylinder ...

Under normal circumstances, most modern engine oil and gasoline brands work fine on their own to keep your engine running smoothly. But there may be cases where even the best of them could use a ...

Over the last two issues, we've presented 34 engine assembly do's and don'ts related to the bottom end using an early 389 Tri-Power engine for illustration purposes. For the final installment, we ...

What seems like a routine maintenance task can quietly cause severe and irreversible engine damage if done incorrectly.

Before exploring the causes of excessive oil consumption, it is helpful to point out that all engines consume some oil through normal operation. Your engine oil forms a lubricating film between the ...

Automakers recommend oil changes at specific intervals, and there are lots of reasons for that. But is improving engine ...