A cylinder head, especially an aluminum one, seldom fails on its own. Typically, there's another matter to contend with. Undoubtedly, the most frequent cause of cylinder-head cracking is an overheated ...

Engines endure much abuse. Sometimes this torture results in damage to either the block or the heads--or both. The block can be very rare, such as a matching-number block for an LS6 Chevelle or the ...

David Hannemann and his wife were aware when they bought their Ellicott City, Md., home 18 years ago that it had aluminum electrical wiring, a known fire hazard. But they waited until this February to ...