Author: Import Service

Once you’ve sorted through all the clues and found the answers to some of the questions, the rest of the answers will often fall into place.

I’ve worked with technicians who had whole tool box drawers filled with specially modified wrenches and other hand-made problem solving tools. Somewhere along the way, most of us have had to creatively bend, spindle, or mutilate our tools to finish some particularly frustrating job.

This article will show you how an automotive computer flips the switches to turn different output circuits either “on” or “off.” We’ll also discuss ways to protect sensitive computer output circuits from death and destruction.

This month, we’d like to use this space to clean our closet of an accumulation of odds and ends, and bring you up to speed on a number of issues-issues we hope will be of interest to you.

We’ve been hammering on you for that past few years about the dangers of using a standard test light to troubleshoot delicate automotive electrical circuits.