Note:Steering and brakes rank high on our safety list. Whether your truck is a stock restoration project or a modern street truck build, performance means more than a hot crate motor. In this month's ...

Typical, medium-duty, hydraulic brake system with front discs (red circuit) and rear drums (green circuit). Boost, or assist (blue circuit), is provided by an engine-driven pump, although the power ...

Brakes might be the most important system on a car, and rotors are critical to smooth braking. This is how brake rotors work ...

Few things on a race car are as regularly underappreciated as the brake system. Yes, stock car racing is about going fast, but that's all the way around the track, not just the straightaway. The best ...

Energy is some weird stuff that can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be changed into different forms, but during these transformations, the total amount of energy in any given system-or ...

Continental’s Duo-Servo Drum Brake is an electromechanically operated brake. As the electrification of vehicles is making rapid progress, the mechanical part of brake actuation—the hydraulics—can be ...

COMET Industries explains how railcar air brake parts and rigging work together and why correct part identification matters.

Brake-by-wire systems are becoming more common thanks to their compact packaging and ability to manage electrified cars’ regenerative braking systems. That doesn’t mean everyone is necessarily ...