A few days ago, we published a report highlighting the valve lifter issues some General Motors customers were experiencing in certain vehicles equipped with either its 5.3L V8 L84 gasoline engine or 6 ...

If you are shopping for a used Chevy truck, make sure you check out this list of 2023-2025 Chevy Silverado 1500 known ...

Cars are intricate machines that rely on a series of chemical and mechanical processes to work properly. When things go wrong with one of those processes, your car can start to make some strange ...

It's an easy enough problem to prevent. Ignore it and you might as well toss the whole truck in the trash.

From the archives: The beauty of hydraulic lifters is that they self-compensate for valvetrain clearances, doing away with the need for valvetrain adjustment. To celebrate HOT ROD's 75th anniversary, ...

The engines of yesteryear were pretty simple, with tappets clackity-clacking away on cam lobes, opening valves, and making a ruckus while doing it. Mechanical lifters were adequate for valve operation ...

Without a doubt, solid cams carry a certain mystique. In the musclecar days, solids were factory-fitted in some of the hottest iron out of Motown, including the early street Hemi. There was a little ...

Noisy tappets (also known as hydraulic lifters) are relatively common on engines that have done their fair share of work. By using oil pressure generated from the engine’s oil pump, the hydraulic ...

GM is currently facing a major quality control issue related to the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 L87 gasoline engine, a powerplant found throughout the Cadillac, Chevrolet, and GMC product portfolio, ...