A head gasket is a crucial component of your vehicle's engine, sealing the engine block and cylinder head to prevent coolant and oil from mixing. When a head gasket fails, it can cause various ...

Diagnosing a toilet leak? There's a rubber gasket that sits between a toilet tank and the bowl called a spud gasket. It works with the flapper valve to control the flow of water between holding tank ...

In the automotive industry, innovations that simplify maintenance and repair tasks are always highly valued. One significant innovation from the 1960s and 70s was the introduction of the locking strip ...

Each door of your refrigerator has a molded rubber gasket to keep the cold in and the heat out. When this gasket gets old and brittle, it leaks. If your refrigerator is running more frequently and you ...

Dear Mike: Can I put gasket sealer on the rubber gasket on my oil pan? I’ve spent an entire afternoon trying to reinstall it after changing the rear main seal. I always manage to drop the thing or to ...

The Chevrolet small-block engine was a brilliant piece of engineering, attested by the fact that well over 100,000,000 have been built. However the first generation was not as oil-tight as later ...

Vehicle engines have many moving parts that require a constant oil supply or need to be shielded from it. Valve cover gaskets, among other gaskets, keep oil where it is needed and prevent leaks to ...

We surveyed mechanics from around the country to get accurate, real-world estimates for how much you can expect to pay when a head gasket goes bad, and the results were higher than we were expecting.

In what the old timers called the "good old days," blown head gaskets used to be a real pain in the...well, you pick the body part. Poor machining practices that left the decks of both the heads and ...

Karl is a Senior Editor at CarBuzz and first joined the company as a freelancer in 2019. After graduating as a copywriter and studying journalism, his early work life included stints in television ...