Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So your mechanic said your balance shaft gear is starting to wear out, and it got you thinking: What even is a balance shaft, and ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

Linamar has been granted a patent for an innovative engine balance shaft designed for internal combustion engines. The shaft features a hydroformed hollow tube that reduces mass and rotational inertia ...

The topic was vibration—the unseen forces going to town inside any engine spinning deep into the rpm stratosphere, and the devices designed to keep those forces in check. First, it’s a damper ...

I'm building a 331ci stroker based on a Ford 302 short-block from DSS Racing. The paperwork that came with the short-block said the engine was internally balanced to 28.2 oz-in. I know the Ford 302 ...

We recently got to hang out with the guys from West Coast Balance in Santa Ana, California, to learn about the procedures they use to meticulously balance rotating assemblies—everything from ...

insights from industryKen AmeikaGlobal Director of the PBS Products Division MTI Instruments AZoM spoke to Ken Ameika, the Global Director of the PBS Products Division for MTI Instruments, about how ...