The timing chain on a Chevrolet 350 engine (also known as the 350 SBC, for small block Chevy) rotates the camshaft in synchronization to the crankshaft rotation. After years of service (or tens of thousands of miles of use) timing chains can stretch. This can affect the performance of the...
How to Replace an Oil Pump in a Jeep Grand Cherokee by Editorial Team Losing lubrication in an engine will destroy it. The oil pump makes sure this doesn't happen by cycling oil through the engine and keeping it lubricated. In most cases, the oil pump lasts the lifetime of a car, but...
How to Fix: Replace the fuel pump. #9 – Timing Belt This component is as it sounds. The timing belt is something like a VIP in the list key of components of an engine. If this belt is off even by 1 tooth, it may cause some pretty notable acceleration problems. How to Fix: Repla...
It is more expensive to replace your transmission with a reman than to have your transmission rebuilt for almost all makes & models. However, if there is significant internal damage, the additional components and time required to get it back on the road may cause the final price of a transmi...
Rather than replacing a vehicle's brake pads every 10,000 miles (16,093 kilometers), owners can replace them at, say, 50,000-mile (80,467 kilometer)intervals. All of these incentives, along with all that clean air, are great, but what are the drawbacks to owning a hybrid vehicle?
The Wankel engine replaces pistons of a conventional engine with a single triangular rotor spinning inside an oval-shaped chamber, which creates compression and expansion as the rotor turns. There are three combustion chambers in the Wankel, with a crankshaft between them. To make the Skycar safe...
If a clog is causing your power steering problems the first thing to do is to try flushing the system. If that doesn’t work, often times you have to replace the entire steering rack or gear. The last and most common of the power steering problems you may encounter is a leak. First,...
AFM lifters have a history of failing and oil consumption can be a problem. How to Delete or Disable AFM on GM/Chevy Engines There are two ways to disable or delete Active Fuel Management on your GM or Chevy Gen IV LS or LS-based Vortec engine—one is to install an AFM Dis...
They said if they find it’s a rear main seal leak, they’d have to replace the oil pan and the rear main seal for $1800. Reply BlueDevil Proon June 18, 2020 at 9:26 am Renee- Thank you for asking about your Chevy Express 3500. It would be tough to say, but most oil leak ...
This activity suggested that Pontiac would grow from a "big Chevy" into a lusher medium-price car -- and so it did. Along the way, Pontiacs were transformed from ho-hum to hot. But that was still some years off when Pontiac unwrapped its 1949 models, which fared quite well in GM's ...