Dowel joints and pocket holes are the two most common types of joinery for any woodworking project, but you'd be surprised to learn which is stronger.

Dowel joints and pocket holes are the two most common types of joinery for any woodworking project, but you'd be surprised to learn which is stronger.

Third, the dowel greatly enhances the shear strength of the joint. Essentially, the dowel pin itself must break or the wood around the pin must crush severely to get a shear failure.

While both the 12 and some 24-valve Cummins 5.9L engines are known to suffer from the killer dowel pin issue, it's believed that the former models are more prone to experience the problem. But it ...

Exploring 5.9L Cummins engine Killer Dowel Pin failure. What it is, why it happens, how to fix or prevent it.