Brake jobs are basic but essential parts of auto maintenance. These tools recommended by our expert protect against common ...

Of all the systems in your car, perhaps the most important to your safety are the brakes. Modern vehicles use hydraulic fluid to transmit pressure from a master cylinder to individual cylinders at ...

Last month we introduced our latest project, a '64 Dodge Polara hardtop, which we'll be transforming into a street/strip car that will ultimately run in the Nostalgia Super Stock drag racing class.

Editor’s note: For the latest information on brake maintenance, click here. Changing brake fluid can be a slippery subject. Some manufacturers include it in their maintenance schedules and others ...

Sometimes the point of a particular exercise isn't as clear as one might think. Take the example of installing a big-brake kit onto a new C7 Corvette. Many may think that the main purpose is to ...

The front brakes on our street/strip 1967 Mustang's were pretty much toast. Although the pads still had plenty of meat on them, they were heavily glazed, and the rotors had developed hot spots, so ...

The most important fluid in your car is perhaps the most ignored. This article is intended to give you both a sense of what you need to do to make sure your brake fluid is in good shape and will allow ...

The brake system is one of the most critical components of your vehicle, and brake fluid is probably something that is overlooked or not thought of enough. How often you need to change your car’s ...

Out of all the fluids that could be leaking from your car, brake fluid might be one of the hardest to diagnose. It doesn’t have a color, it doesn’t have a particularly strong smell, and it might not ...

The process works because liquids are incompressible, and the density remains almost unchanged even during pressure and temperature rises. However, the fluid must retain its properties at all ...

Since Project C4orce debuted in our April issue, we have been scouring the e-mails and snail-mail letters, and evaluating the suggestions and questions they contained. There's nothing like a survey, ...