You're driving down the road and having a normal day behind the wheel of your car. You look down on the dashboard to check your gauges and speed, but you notice that a little orange "Check Engine" ...

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 prevent dumping excess emissions into the atmosphere. Not only are those ...

I left Vehicle Testing Services, a San Antonio, Texas, facility where Detroit Diesel is testing its VNT EGR engines, in a Century Class Freightliner. Chuck Blake, Detroit’s application engineer, and ...

I pulled the 435-hp VNM 64T day cab out of Volvo headquarters in Greensboro, N.C., grossing 70,000 pounds. I noticed that typical turbo sounds were lacking, replaced by a slight whistle as the turbo ...

In the diesel performance world, Ford 6.0L Power Stroke engines have a bad reputation for blowing head gaskets and sticking EGR valves when owners modify them. There are a number of reasons why people ...

Aaron, a 27-year automotive technician and lifelong car enthusiast, attended Specs Howard School of Media Arts and learned the fundamentals of digital video and editing, shot composition and writing.