Kia has recalled the Seltos and Soul with the 2.0-liter engine due to bad piston rings. Kia has a problem with the 2.0-liter ...

Presumably that you want to replace the worn out piston rings of a Toyota VVTi engine, you’ll need to know how to correctly put the new ones in place. The hardest part is to reach the piston rings ...

What makes piston ring selection and ring endgap so important to engine life and power? What's more, what makes that first engine firing so critical to proper break-in and longevity? Those first few ...

Kia America has issued a pretty big and potentially expensive recall. As it happens, a little over 137,000 examples of the Seltos and Soul have been manufactured with iffy piston oil rings that may ...

Q: I live in an area where water has a very high mineral content, so I have always tried to use distilled water in the cooling systems. Now I would like to flush the coolant in all of the vehicles but ...

When I first started working for HOT ROD magazine more than 30 years ago, nearly all American domestic production cars used a thick, 5/64-5/64-3/16-inch piston-ring package. The top, usually ...