Author: Import Service

One of the joys of the lab scope is its simplicity. If you take away all the buttons and dials on an oscilloscope, it’s really just a voltmeter that allows us to look at voltage levels over time.

If R-12 is unavailable in your area, or has become too pricey, you’ll have plenty of prospects for retrofits to R-134a.

Each manufacturer has a different way of drawing schematic diagrams. What they will or will not put in a schematic diagram for our assistance also varies a great deal.

Look at the additional information to be gained from consideration of a third gas, oxygen (O2), the “lean indicator.”

To keep things interesting, perhaps we can look forward to hunting for oil leaks that refuse to drip on anything except a clean piece of paper on the owner’s garage floor.

Got one of those treadwear pattern charts on the wall of your shop? The ones with the different patches rubbed on the business edge of the tire, with corresponding diagnoses in the chart blocks? Guess what? Many of them are wrong.

This article goes a step further and discusses some basic points on reading electronic system diagrams.

The owner may or may not have some performance complaint that goes along with it; but you know this system, like engine control systems for some time, can compensate for most problems, can mask what would otherwise be driveability symptoms.

Ball and socket joints aren’t the same as they were, so no one rule fits them all any more.