Over the past year or so, I’ve become quite familiar with a good variety of new tools. There was the bearing and bushing removal-slash-installation kit, and who could forget having my world turned ...

When it comes to cars and car parts, a lot goes into sending you down the road and making sure you can come to a stop when you arrive at your destination. As you're probably aware, our vehicles rely ...

Over my 50+ years as a master auto technician, vocational educator and vehicle owner, I learned the importance of a vehicle’s braking systemespecially the calipers. So, I never wait for my brake pads ...

There are many crucially important systems in your car that help it work correctly, but arguably none are more crucial than its brakes. They’re tasked with safely bringing your vehicle to a stop ...

When it comes to cars, the brake system is one of the most vital components. Virtually all modern automotive brake systems work using hydraulic brake fluid to generate the pressure necessary to ...

Disc brakes: Ya gotta love ’em. Here’s a general primer on how to assess and change your pads. So you can love ‘em even more. Checking the condition of your disc-brake pads should be a regular part of ...

We have seen this happen in real-time at Twitter, as leadership has rallied employees around product evolutions, only to lay off the very team members who were best equipped to execute them. The end ...

Let’s talk loose ends and the blessed end of Mercury retrograde. While Mercury, our fleet-footed, silver-tongued, trash-talking and mayhem-making planet of the mind and the mouth officially stations ...

Welcome to the Unconventional Review, an instant reaction to standouts, stats, and story lines from the Patriots’ most recent game . . . It wasn’t so much a wake-up call as a confirmation of what we ...

For decades, if not centuries, housing in Massachusetts communities has been defined by scarcity, exclusion, and an unwillingness to center policy in human needs. Redlining, racial covenants, ...

The contact-points ignition system has been used on the internal combustion engine since the early 1900s because it is simple and durable. Compared to the computer-controlled ignitions used in today's ...