General Motors is scrambling to rectify the engine failures for its 6.2-liter V8 truck engine – one of which bit the dust ...

A modern gas engine most commonly uses pistons and a crankshaft to power the wheels of a car or truck. The piston is basically a round thing on a stick (called a connecting rod) that travels in a ...

Owners of the vehicles complained of connecting rod bearing wear, which has led to catastrophic engine damage without any ...

Here, the gas ignites and pushes the two components up and down. This causes the connecting rods to spin the crankshaft, turning the linear motion into a rotational motion that will ultimately ...