There’s little doubt that some of you will still be skeptical about the merits of the scope, thinking that all this high tech stuff is a waste of your time and money.
Trace Elements: Part Two
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Mirage
For at least the last 15 years, American automakers have been telling us that they couldn’t make a profit manufacturing and selling small cars.
“In Your Face”
Some technicians have become very apprehensive about working on our around cars equipped with Supplemental Restraint Systems (SRS).
Driveability Clinic: Back To Basics
As an independent repair shop tech, you get stuck working on whatever comes chugging, grinding, and smoking into your parking lot.
Trace Elements: Part One
This month’s Driveability Clinic article about a Mitsubishi-built Dodge Conquest with a feeble minded control unit, raises some interesting questions about ways to troubleshoot a car with a complicated driveability problem.
Driveability Clinic: Process of Elimination
“The computer’s bad.” I don’t know about you, but this is always the hardest diagnosis for me to give.
Gasket Case
Oil leaks. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but sometimes it seemed like all we fixed from one end of the day to the next was oil leaks.
Driveability Clinic: Fuel Pressure
How many times have you spent an entire afternoon looking for a problem, only to find that the whole thing was caused by something simple like a loose battery terminal connection?
Cores
Someone once suggested that heater cores were the first part selected from the parts bin during the assembly of a new car.
Tech Tips
Honda Carb Tips; Jetta ECU Grounds; Inner CV Joints; Fuel Pump Cries Wolf; Broken Radiator Drain plugs; Voltage Drops And EGR Valves; Speaker Wire Tracer