On engines equipped with hydraulic tappets, zero lash at maximum tappet plunger rise can be determined by rotating the pushrod with your fingertips while slowly turning the lash adjusting nut. The ...

This could be caused by something inside the engine bay rattling or vibrating, but could also be linked to the exhaust system or its heat-shielding doing the same thing. When you hit the accelerator ...

"The past," said English novelist L.P. Hartley in his 1953 novel The Go-Between, "is a foreign country; they do things differently there." As far as book openings go, it's pretty solid. Right up there ...