What a difference a year makes. In ’97 the big fear was availability of R-12 at a reasonable price, and being ready to do a retrofit to R-13a if it wasn’t.

While working for the past three years on the tech line at Automotive Information Systems, I found that a great number of the automotive technicians I assisted were using computers in their shops as well as at home.

The Bounce Test; Slosh Slosh; Alternator Diagnostic Shortcut; Nuke It; Clarification; Balancing Act; Gaining Clearance; Master Cylinder Removal; Color Code

Generator testing can be performed while the generator is on the car, and without the use of expensive test equipment.