Knowing your vehicle can become beneficial in emergencies. If you are ever in a situation where you want to repair something quickly or change a component, there is nothing more cost-effective than a ...

Modern internal combustion engines — including those that run on diesel fuel — require a lot of special parts and systems to ...

Q: I have a 1990 Toyota Corolla LE, with automatic transmission, which I purchased new. It now has 101,000 miles on it. In all the years I’ve had it, there was never a major problem. All the service ...

The Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) valve sends some of the exhaust gas back into the cylinders to reduce combustion temperature. This is required because nitrous oxides (nasty pollutants) form when ...

Beginning in October, the exhaust from newly manufactured diesel engines must produce half the oxides of nitrogen (NOx) of engines produced today with no increase in particulate matter (PM). This is ...

While most of the early problems have been engineered out of the exhaust gas recirculation systems on today’s clean diesel engines, corroded coolers, stuck valves and other problems still plague ...

Exhaust Gas Recirculation. Learn the term, if you don’t know it already, because of all the new emissions technologies being discussed, EGR looms closest. By Oct. 1, 2002, most domestic makers of ...

A mechanic who was doing a repair on a Dodge Ram found an unexpected problem that caused a whole new level of alarm for him. The video documenting the situation comes from Dave’s Auto Center ...