A cylinder head, especially an aluminum one, seldom fails on its own. Typically, there's another matter to contend with. Undoubtedly, the most frequent cause of cylinder-head cracking is an overheated ...

So far, we only have about 1,600 bucks into our 406 short-block, including assembly and a bit of farmed-out labor (see July and Aug. '06). To complete the job, we started looking around for cylinder ...

Even if you're not entirely sure what a cylinder head is, or what your car's heads are made of, you can probably guess that when your mechanic combines the words "head" and "failure" in the diagnosis, ...