Feature Articles

Hot Flashes

Hot Flashes

Our Bosch LH-Jetronic article in April of this year gave you an overview of this electronic fuel injection system when it’s installed on mid-1980s 240 series Volvos.

Starters: Haste Makes Waste

Starters: Haste Makes Waste

One bad apple may spoil the bunch, but we wonder how many good starters end up buried in the rebuilder’s core barrel due to improper diagnosis of starter circuit problems.

Carside Manner

Carside Manner

My younger daughter just returned from a week end at a summer camp at which bright young students were exposed to opportunities in the medical field.

Bum Steer

Bum Steer

We decided to ask a man who rebuilds power steering racks for import vehicles to share his many years of experience in this area with our readers.

Tech tips

Tech tips

Crankshaft Sprocket Removal; Vacuum Leak Diagnosis; Draining The Reservoir; Excelerated Meltdown; Accord Alternator Removal

Five Car Draw

Five Car Draw

We ran an article highlighting valve adjustment and maintenance procedures on a 1987 BMW 535iS.

Carside Manner

Carside Manner

What I didn’t know was that they had already given their last full measure of devotion to the teeming throng pulling out of the parking lot.

Blue Green

Blue Green

The necessity of saving our blue skies from the effects of ozone damage is about to start costing some additional green down here at ground zero.

Tension Headache

Tension Headache

Replacing the timing belt on most engines isn’t all that difficult. Just take it apart, line up the timing marks, install the new belt, put it all back together, and away you go.

Logic Gates

Logic Gates

The decorative patterns scrolled at the top of our gate are some of the lesser known symbols found in schematic drawings, and are used to indicate the Logic Gates found in computers.

Carside Manner

Carside Manner

I intercepted a fax the other day. An old friend who operates a vary (I mean very) successful shop specializing in very (I mean VERY) expensive European cars had faxed a plea for help to an associate.

BMW 2002

BMW 2002

Why would anybody write about the BMW 2002, you might ask? Why concentrate on a car that hasn’t even been produced for 15 years?

4 Gas Follow Up

4 Gas Follow Up

Now we’d like to introduce you to two little known tools which can make 4 gas analysis even more efficient. Hope you don’t mind 4 gas two months in a row, but the tools mentioned here seemed to be a good follow up.

4 Gas Analysis

4 Gas Analysis

As mandatory emissions testing gets to be a hotter and hotter topic, the 4 gas emission analyzer will soon be finding its way into more and more shops.