Dear Tom and Ray: After driving for 40 years and never having blown an engine or transmission, my husband blew up on a recent road trip (in which I was driving), because after two hours, he noticed ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, as the clich goes, then perhaps consumer demand is a favorite aunt. That was certainly the case with Jamie Passon of Passon Performance in Sugarloaf, ...

Over the years, the trucks have certainly become more sophisticated. Take transmissions for example. At one time the only choices were "three-on-the-tree" or "four-on-the-floor" manual boxes. When ...

“You can’t have too much horsepower” is a universal truth in the trucking business. Truckers like big, powerful engines. But an important link between all that engine power and the drive wheels is the ...

Q Recently my son-in-law replaced the 42RE transmission in his '96 Jeep Cherokee with one purchased at a salvage yard. The transmission works well in all gears except overdrive. It will not go into ...

Ford's Automatic Overdrive (AOD) transmission arrived in 1980 in full-size Fords, Mercurys, and the Lincoln Continental. As the AOD became available in more applications during the 1980s, including ...