Genuine Nissan Parts: The Real Thing
How you can easily order online using the Nissan USA eSTORE
Attack HVAC!
The main components of Nissan HVAC systems , and some helpful diagnostic tips and strategies.
Timing Is Everything: How Nissan Engines Control Timing
An overview of how two popular engines control the timing of their camshafts, including timing chains, tensioners, guides, and sprockets.
Navigating the Nissan TechInfo Website
How to find the most commonly sought-after facts needed for proper Nissan repairs, and some added benefits available to technicians with a subscription.
Nissan TechNews Summer 2015
This issue offers an overview of two popular Nissan timing systems; a look at the main components of Nissan HVAC systems; why and how to order parts via the Nissan eSTORE; tips for navigating the Nissan TechInfo website and a special TSB report on programming blank transmission control modules.
It’s Fun Because It’s SUPPOSED To Be Fun!
When I tell my wife that I just love touching those dirty parts, she just shakes her head and laughs at me and calls me a fool.
StarTuned June 2015
In this issue: Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Service Safety; Climate Control Vents; MLS: The Forever Head Gasket; The Aluminum Workplace
Timing A Vintage Engine For Modern Gasoline
The changes in how today’s reformulated unleaded gasoline burns in a vintage carburetor-equipped engine will often cause it to not perform as it should. These new blends are not as volatile, but still burn somewhat faster than the leaded gasoline of the distant past.
The Aluminum Workplace: Getting a Handle on a Finicky Metal
You may think the adoption of aluminum components is the latest thing in the evolution of Mercedes-Benz vehicles, but even so repair procedures have changed substantially over the last decade.
The Big Science of Pushrods, Part 2
A pushrod selection consideration is the tuning effect of size, length, and stiffness of the components in the valve train. Any part has a natural resonant frequency at which it will vibrate and a point at which a small periodic input or disturbance coincides with the resonant frequency will cause the vibration to increase with each excitation input.
Multi-Layer Steel: The Forever Head Gasket
MLS technology takes us from spongy to rigid, and from tenuous to permanent, but you have to live by the rules.
The LeMay family collection – Twice the fun and worth the trip
Two spectacular collections of antique, classic, and other interesting vehicles and memorabilia within a couple of miles of each other, either of which is worth the trip.
Breathing Easy: Cabin Air Filtration
Cabin air filtration is designed to filter 100% of the air entering the ventilation system to provide the cleanest air for the maximum passenger comfort possible.
Mercedes-Benz Climate Control Vents: Fair or Ill Wind?
Mercedes-Benz has gone far beyond cables and vacuum to control HVAC accurately.
Basics Series: The Life of a Lifter, Part 2
Friction is reduced using the roller lifters. Where the flat lifter is velocity-limited, the roller lifter is acceleration-limited.
Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Service Safety
Learning these basics can save your life – what not to touch or do, and when to refer customers to a dealer.
Why couldn’t I write a saleable program that would give good advice on how to modify your car?
Why couldn’t I write a saleable program that would give good advice on how to modify your car?
Working with BMW Aluminum Panels
BMW’s quest to make vehicles stronger, lighter and more fuel efficient is never ending. In order to achieve these goals, new ways of thinking and new materials are necessary. That translates into new repair procedures.
Performance Technician May 2015
We’ve tailor this content specifically for you, the professional automotive technician with a passion for high-performance. Read Part 2 of lifter subtleties, and the science of pushrods, timing a vintage engine for modern gasoline, which is more important than you might imagine.
Don’t Fall for Fake Parts
Counterfeit parts can damage your customers’ cars and your reputation as well.
There’s Good Money in Maintenance
Performing scheduled maintenance has become a key profit opportunity for savvy shop owners, and something that will keep customers coming back.