Car repair Tips and Tutorials Archive

A head gasket is the gasket that sits between the cylinder head and the block. Its job is to seal the two mating surfaces of the top and bottom halves of the engine. This means, unlike any other gasket in an engine, the head gasket has to seal oil, coolant, and compression from the cylinders...

An engine’s camshaft controls the operation of the valves in a cylinder head. Without it, the engine won’t work.

The dictionary defines an engine as a machine with moving parts that converts power into motion. That being so, when we consider how a car engine works we can ignore many of the extra parts (the water pump, the alternator, the starter motor and so on) that many people would also consider to be a...

Even if you’re not an enthusiast, it pays to have an inkling about car maintenance when you go to a garage. And once you gain that basic understanding, you’ll start to realize just how much you can actually do yourself! Haynes is here to help you take control of your car maintenance, so read on to...