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 ...

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 ...

A lot of new cars are ditching old school hydraulic brakes in favor of brake-by-wire systems. What are they? What happens if ...

Helicopters are engineering marvels and provide a great deal of utility for the military and civilian services. The rotor ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn how preventive maintenance protects the heavy duty truck whole brake system and saves on costly repairs.