CARS.COM — If steam is pouring from under your hood, a temperature warning light is glowing bright red on your dashboard or the needle in the temperature gauge is cozying up to the High mark, it’s ...
Justin Pritchard is a seasoned Sudbury, Ontario-based automotive journalist, producer, and technical writer. With a passion for cars and a talent for storytelling, he's established himself as a ...
The radiator fan (or fans) pulls cooling air through the car’s radiator. Positioned between the radiator and engine, cooling fans are particularly helpful when the car is stationary or moving at ...
There are few automotive gremlins as pervasive as a leaky radiator. Nearly everyone and their mothers have stories about waking up one fine autumn morning, going out to the car, and finding a massive ...
Internal combustion engines, like the ones that most modern and non-electric vehicles use, are capable of generating immense amounts of power to help us get to and from our destinations or show off at ...
Heading into the heat of summer always brings up issues with cooling systems. Our latest venture is with an all-aluminum 5.3L LS engine swap backed by a TREMEC TKO-600 five-speed, and one of the last ...
It's been 125 years since one of the auto industry's most celebrated designers filed a patent for a device that would become a central characteristic of the modern car to this very day. Even today's ...
OK, so the cooling system on your truck is not nearly as sexy as those new shocks or lights. The cooling systems on your rig, however, are much more complicated than it may seem. It’s also far harder ...
Few things in a racer's life are more frustrating than a fast car that you cannot keep on the track for an entire race because of niggling mechanical problems. One of the most common examples of this ...
We’ve said it more times than we care to count over the years—the early Mustang cooling system is marginal at best. It may have worked fairly well with a stock engine and the cooling system in perfect ...