Professional Car Maintenance

The Honda Passport was designed by Isuzu Motors and released between 1994 and 2002. It was also released by Isuzu as the Isuzu Rodeo. Available more widely with the 3.2-liter V-6 engine, it was...

The transmission of your car is a mechanism that changes the gears of the engine as you drive. The transmission makes your car go, and if it is not in top shape, you can be left sitting still...

A manual transmission, or the gear box, is a type transmission used in motor vehicles that uses a clutch to change the torque in the internal combustion engine. Manual transmissions, in other...

A Mitsubishi automatic transmission, like any other automatic transmission, is a device connecting directly to the engine of the vehicle which is designed to translate the comparatively stable...

The flywheel of a car or truck connects the engine's crank shaft to the transmission through the torque converter. Both manual and automatic transmissions connect to a a flywheel. The flywheel is...

Removing a transmission counter shaft usually involves removing the transmission. To do so, the vehicle's front end is elevated with a trolley jack, or rack lift. Wheels, U-joints, tie rods,...

Manual Jaguar S-Type transmissions work much in the same way that any other manual transmission functions. It sits between the driveshaft and the engine's flywheel, with the clutch assembly...

SMG stands for Sequential Manual Gearbox. It's essentially a transmission capable of functioning as an automatic, or functioning as a manual transmission. The innovation is that, when functioning...

A split torque transmission is a form of automatic motor vehicle transmission which is able to send power to two separate places at once, and even control how much power is sent to each output...

A powershift transmission is a new type of manual transmission developed by Volvo to allow for safer powershifting. Powershifting is a process by which a driver can get more power out of their...

Manual-transmission gearboxes are the simplest types of gearboxes and involve the manual movement of a sliding gear along the gearbox's main shaft using a shifter. The shifter is attached to a...

A VW Jetta is known in the automotive industry world as a sealed transmission. If you own one and spent the last 30 minutes or so looking for the transmission fluid dipstick, you're going to find...

You will need to replace your car engine when: it has over 150,000 miles on it and is slowing down, it stops working or if it starts smoking excessively. Replacing a car engine is a complex...