Ford agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for those with defective plastic intake manifolds on their 1996-2001 Crown Vics, Town Cars, and Grand Marquis (hopefully I got the plural form correct on ...

We have succeeded in applying a new injection molding method, die rotary injection (DRI), for plastic intake manifold production. Polyamide 6 and polyamide 66 are the optimum materials with ...

As cars get smarter, the engineers get to think more and more like the beancounters. To this effect, Volvo decided that it would be a great idea to make the intake manifold on 2.0-liter turbo diesel ...

Back in June, I posted that Ford was finally making a settlement with the owners of vehicles equipped with the 4.6L 2-valve V8 that were prone to leaking coolant by virtue of a cracked plastic intake ...

Ford Motor Co. has agreed to settle a customer lawsuit over alleged defects in the intake manifolds of as many as 2 million cars. Under the settlement, filed late Thursday in federal court in Oakland, ...

QUESTION: I was just informed the coolant leak in my GMC Yukon is due to a leaking intake manifold gasket. Apparently this is a common problem. I was shocked at the price quoted for the repair and am ...

Rumors of its existence have been going around the Internet since the first prototype went out the door for testing. Over the course of the last three years or so, C&L proprietor Lee Bender has been ...

Q: I was just informed the coolant leak in my GMC Yukon is due to a leaking intake manifold gasket. Apparently this is a common problem. I was shocked at the price quoted for the repair and am not ...