Your local public utility’s worst nightmare is a guy with a backhoe who doesn’t heed the warnings.
Your local public utility’s worst nightmare is a guy with a backhoe who doesn’t heed the warnings.
The Renault Alliance was voted Motor Trend Car of the Year in 1983. Large decals glued to the rear windows identified the little car as the “One to Watch.”
The Quest is actually Nissan’s fourth entry in the minivan wars.
Fuel injection seems like an easy choice, but even a simple fuel injection system can add to much to the cost of the average econobox.
This follow-up article will take us to the next step and discuss the use of electronic schematics.
Since then he has moved to an independent shop, and has found repair procedures to be more complicated now that he doesn’t have access to current technical information and dealerships’ wealth of special tools.
Whether it’s a better or easier way to get the job done, or a homemade tool that’s “not available in any store,” it’s obvious that there are folks out there with their thinking caps on.
Sticking with the basics, we eliminated as many obvious causes as we could for a warm high idle with occasional misfire, and an intermittent no-start when the engine was hot.
To complete the package, power was transmitted to the front wheels through universal joints that didn’t take kindly to radical changes in direction. Tire companies loved these vehicles almost as much as their heavily muscled owners.
There are more than a few classic lines floating around that are dead giveaways about what’s really going on.