Honda recalled 137 four-cylinder Accords and CR-Vs to replace engines that may have improperly torqued connecting rod bolts. This latest recall may not be a very big one, but it does strike us as an ...

A connecting rod is the mechanical link between the piston and the crankshaft. By design, connecting rods convert vertical motion into rotary motion, eventually yielding torque at the flywheel. By ...

When connecting rod bolts are not covered, you run the risk of scoring cylinder walls and crankshaft rod journals. Because rod bolts are very hard and crank journals/cylinder walls are soft iron, it ...

At 7,500 rpm, the pistons in your race engine reach either top-dead-center or bottom-dead-center and change directions 25 times per second. That means the piston goes from traveling at top piston ...