Test Bench: The Perception Is Reality
You would be hard-pressed to find an automotive technician who has not used an oscilloscope to diagnose a particular problem.
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Author: Import Service
When Do You Dig Deeper
Sometimes circumstances just erase all doubts: the engine drips oil from the stump of a connecting rod hanging out are covered with recently-molten aluminum: a sample of oil from the crankcase twinkles with tiny shards of journal and bearing metal, grit rubbing sharply between your fingers.
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Mazda Fan-Fare
While factory shop manuals and diagnostic flow charts may help you get by, there is no substitute for knowing how a system actually works.
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Hot and Cold
What a difference a year makes. In ’97 the big fear was availability of R-12 at a reasonable price, and being ready to do a retrofit to R-13a if it wasn’t.
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Test Bench: Here Comes The Sun
While working for the past three years on the tech line at Automotive Information Systems, I found that a great number of the automotive technicians I assisted were using computers in their shops as well as at home.
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Positive Identification Part Two The Interrogation
Generator testing can be performed while the generator is on the car, and without the use of expensive test equipment.
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Tick, Tick, Tick, Your Computer Clocks Are Ticking
The Millennium Bug, the Year 2000 Problem, Y2K – whatever name it goes by, it refers to the problem created by storing dates on computers using two-digit years instead of four-digit years.
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Mercedes-Benz Climate Control Quick Checks
These differences may be referred to by some as “over-engineering,” but once you understand the reasoning behind the differences, it becomes clear why these vehicles have achieved such enviable reliability record.
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Test Bench: Bottle Fed
It wasn’t so very long ago when the tune-up was seen by many motorists as the cure-all for a wide variety of engine ailments.
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