Less maintenance and a smoother operation are just a few benefits of running hydraulic lifters in engines, which is why just ...

Once upon a time, most car engines used solid or mechanical lifters. But unlike most fairy tales that begin that way, there was no lasting happy ending for them. Hydraulic lifters first appeared in ...

Sorry, solid lifters, you make a wonderful typewriter clack and allow for intoxicatingly high rpms, but you can't be surprised that manufacturers slowly moved to ...

Riding on last month's How It Works topic (cams) is this month's topic—lifters. These cylindrically shaped components contact the lobes of the cam to convert the eccentric shape of the lobe into ...

"Bullwinkle, that trick never works. Why don't you figure out how to make hydraulic roller lifters survive big spring pressure." "Huh?" Like Bullwinkle, hydraulic roller lifters get no respect. It ...