It's official. Toyota's Lexus luxury brand is conducting a voluntary recall of 138,000 vehicles. The recall, to replace faulty valve springs, affects the following models: The valve springs will be ...

Toyota had just managed to settle the recall waters a little bit last month, when its premium division Lexus debuted a recall for 17,000 HS 250h hybrid vehicles that were suspected of having a fuel ...

PITTSBURGH, April 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a timesaving way to remove a camshaft and valve springs without having to remove an engine's cylinder head," said an inventor, from Milan ...

Fittings such as these, for connecting a compressed air line to the spark plug hole for valve support, are available at most auto parts stores. Occasionally it is necessary or desirable to inspect or ...

Jalopnik has received a bunch of tips about Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ engines failing after being taken in for a valve spring recall. Yes, you read that right: The cars aren't breaking and being ...

For mild street engines, stock valve springs are more than adequate. But if you've screwed in a big bumpstick for strip-banging or banzai runnin', then pay attention. Our plan was simple: Install a ...

Those wound-up pieces of high-tensile steel under your rocker arms work so hard closing your valves over millions of cycles that they could probably use a replacement right about now. We're talking ...