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How to Find an Oil Filter on Car Engine

October 17th, 2011

How to Find an Oil Filter on Car Engine

[/caption] More people want to start to change their own engine oil and filter in this day and age then ever before because of the poor economy. For more than 20 years, it’s been customary to go to an oil change place or perhaps [...]


How to Clean Car Engines

October 12th, 2011
It sounds crazy, but we get calls from folks asking questions like, how to clean car engines. It is not crazy really, in fact it’s a good idea to ask such a question before pouring soap on your engine and hosing it off. There are several viable methods of cleaning your engine. For whatever the [...]


What size engine is in my car?

October 8th, 2011
That is a good question. Lots of folks think what size engine is in my car but don’t really care. Until perhaps that info is needed, for what ever reasons. You would think it’s easy to figure out, yet in many cases it’s like looking for something that should be obvious, yet seems to be [...]


How long does it take to replace a car engine?

September 27th, 2011

How long does it take to replace a car engine?

[/caption] An exact time for engine replacement can not be made, in the course of replacing an auto engine, complications may occur. Every engine replacement job takes a different length of time. Different cars present different degrees of difficulty also. Old vehicles [...]


How Engines Work

September 21st, 2011
How engines work? A good question that often gets overlooked. An engine, the type of engines cars and trucks use is called an Internal Combustion Engines [ICE]. Because the preponderance of vehicles use ICE’s, we will focus on the such. Both gasoline auto engines and diesel engines are of the ICE variety. Except for the [...]


A Pre-Owned Car Primer And Car Engines

June 4th, 2010

Pre-Owned Cars and Car Engines

[/caption] If I were going to buy a used car, I would do some research first. If I only had 2000 dollars than I would be limited in how choosy I could be. But if I had 6,000 or 10,000 dollars, I would do a lot of research [...]


When Is It Time To Examine Replacement Car Engines?

May 27th, 2010

Choose The Road To GotEngines.Com

[/caption] Every now and then someone gets put in a spot where a decision has to be made in regards to replacing your car engine or replacing the car. An in depth evaluation of the whole car, it’s overall condition and determining if it is worthy of reclamation [...]


Car Engines And Your Ignition Key

May 24th, 2010

The Key To Your Car: GotEngines.com

[/caption] Ever heard of the anti theft system used by GM in the ’90′s? It was one of the first good setups. Want to figure out if the car has a security system like this? If the key’s ‘slotted shaft’ has a small black rectangular piece embedded [...]


Car Engines-Long Block or Short Block?

May 23rd, 2010

Engines for Sale, Long Blocks and Short Blocks

[/caption] When an unpleasant situation occurs and you are facing a repair to your car or truck engine, knowing the basics about engine assemblies is critical. Knowing something about the options, parts and choices, rebuilt or remanufactured engine block assemblies available is the key to [...]


Air Conditioner Compressors For Sale.

May 22nd, 2010
The heat is setting in here in Florida and some of the systems in automobiles will be tested because of the extreme heat. Every part of the car gets hotter, especially drive-train components. Systems like the radiator and all of it’s related components, and the cars engine and transmission are particularly sensitive to heat. The [...]