If your car is making a chirpy rattling noise, prepare yourself for a potentially very large repair bill. Here's what's wrong and what you can do to avoid it.

The excessive heat built up caused warping in all of the critical fit areas. Restoring these bearings to a usable condition required a weld build up of the spherical bearing seat on the bearing ...

When people first started naming the parts of engines, they named most of them for exactly what they did: head, block, connecting rod and (especially) bearings. There are many places in a car where ...

The bearings inside an engine are critical for taking the massive forces that actually drive a car forward. The crankshaft turns the reciprocating motion of the pistons into rotational motion that ...

As cars change over the years, so do the skillsets of mechanics who work on them (just try finding someone who can rebuild a carb or an old generator). Perhaps one of the most fascinating skills ...

The primary job of an engine bearing is to establish a low-friction interface for a rotating shaft. Most bearings today are half-round assemblies used around crankshafts, for example. While you might ...

Shell Rotella recently introduced a line of heavy-duty greases for trucks, tractors, construction equipment and more. Shell Rotella HD Grease is a multi-purpose grease for on- and off-road vehicle ...

HOUSTON, Tex. — Shell Lubricants has introduced Shell Retinax LX a new family of lithium complex greases developed for the lubrication of high-temperature components such as wheel bearings. Shell says ...

Engine bearings do many things. They support moving parts like crankshafts and connecting rods, but they also play a role in determining an engine's oil pressure and protect the crankshaft from being ...