Import Service Archives

Front Wheel Drive Split Bearing R & R

Nov 1988 | Import Service

Using two separate approaches and a variety of tools, we’ll disassemble and adjust bearing preload using selective spacers on front drive cars with two-piece wheel bearings.

Elementary L-Jetronic: Part Two

Nov 1988 | Import Service

This is the sequel to our popular, practical L-Jetronic article. We’ll pick up where we left off, with helpful hints and practical testing procedures.

Carside Manner

Nov 1988 | Import Service

The customer complains of a mysterious cough, grunt, groan, stumble, or sneeze. You listen to the customer as well as you can, with no interruptions other than the ringing phone, the blast of an air chisel…

Customer Car Care Guide

Nov 1988 | Import Service

This article is written to your customers on your behalf. It emphasizes the importance of preventive maintenance and tells your customers how to care for their cars.

Electrical Troubleshooting

Oct 1988 | Import Service

In this month’s Basic Training we shoot down a variety of common and uncommon electrical problems with a simple technique called the voltage drop.

Carburetor Clinic: Carter Weber One-Barrel

Oct 1988 | Import Service, Subaru

This one-barrel carb was used on certain 1982-84 Subarus. I think you’ll find it to be an exercise in simplicity compared to many other import carburetors!

Carside Manner

Oct 1988 | Import Service

Imagine a restaurant where the menu selections are printed in a language you don’t speak, no one will explain to you what you’re ordering, and that you have to guess at your selection…

BMW V12

Oct 1988 | BMW, Import Service

First, it includes some new technology that may find its way into other cars. Secondly, it lets us look at the physical characteristics of a V12 engine that make it so smooth.