Take The 5th
Has unfamiliarity with Volkswagen and Audi five cylinder engines prevented you from handling your customers’ service questions about these engines on the grounds that your answers might incriminate you?
Mikuni Choke Mechanism
This may be the age of fuel injection, but our old friend the carburetor is still in use in millions of cars. One of the more unique designs is the Mikuni carb, found on many Mitsubishi, Mazda, and Chrysler vehicles.
Star Service News Bulletin No.43 – Spring 1992
Star Service News Bulletin No.43
Switch-In-A-Box
Relays have grown in importance in automotive electrical systems. But our switch-in-the-box used to be a rare item.
Mazda 626
This article will concentrate on some common repair procedures and focus on a real 1985 model with an assortment of problems.
KE-Jetronic Fuel Injection: Part Two
Last month we showed you how milliamp readings sent by the control unit to the DPR control fuel delivery to the injectors. This month, it’s time to concentrate on tests and adjustments of the system.
CFC Update
As we explained in our August CFC report, “Blue Green,” the U.S. Government has signed an international agreement that calls for gradual reductions in CFC production and a complete end to all production by the year 2000. If that seems like a long way off, read on.
Carside manner
I have already spent hours justifying the need for a new tool box, and have assembled a logical argument for the purchase so water tight that it could be used as a main hatch on a submarine.
KE-Jetronic Fuel Injection: Part One
There’s some strange new gizmo bolted to its side with wires attached to it. The frequency valve and control pressure regulator are both missing. What gives?
Carside Manner
Every time somebody tells me they’re going to pick up a 500 dollar beater, I develop a nervous twitch near my right eye.
Tech Tips
Clutch Release Shaft Damage, Part One; Clutch Release Shaft Damage, Part Two; Valve Damage Quick Check; One Picture Is Worth…; Subaru Radiators; Honda Timing Belt Tips
Stop It
Instead, we’ve been out roaming through shops looking for common problems, and disassembling several more cars on our own so we could throw together this grab bag of brake repair tips.
Spectrum Timing Belt
The popularity of overhead cam engines has made timing belt replacement a pretty common maintenance procedure. Each of us has probably replaced more timing belts than we care to remember.
Porsche 914: The Amazing Adjustable Car
Does it ever seem to you that we’ve been forced into being “parts changers?”
Nissan Chokeless Hitachi: Part Two
We’ll detail several basic adjustments that can determine the effectiveness of the chokeless Hitachi fuel system after the engine reaches operating temperature.
Carside Manner
I wrote a column about the importance of the telephone as a business tool a while back. Satisfied that I had gotten my point across, I walked away from the keyboard hoping never to address the issue again.
300Zs
Whatever the reason, many of us have put in time after school, doing blackboard duty. Writing three hundred Z’s on a blackboard gives you plenty of time to think about the power of letters.
Walnut Blaster
As important as carbon is to us and our planet, I know one place where I would rather not find it. That’s in the form of hard-to-remove deposits ont eh back side of intake valves.
Swede Tooth
Saabs and Volvos have always stood out from the crowd with their distinctive styling and sometimes unique mechanical designs.
Shoehorn Fit
Every once in a while, it’s fun to do a job for the first time. Believe it or not, I’d never had cause to replace a Honda Accord timing belt.
Nissan Chokeless Hitachi: Part One
This unique carburetor had been out of production for nearly two years, and some of the over one million Sentras and Pulsars equipped with chokeless Hitachis were beginning to show up for service at independent shops around the country.