Not just another pretty face, the automotive oscilloscope shouldn’t be overlooked as a diagnostic tool.
Inside Scopes
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Electrical Service
A reprise of that popular look at the foibles and failures of auto electrics. Watch as we chase the elusive electron.
VW Distributor Repair
If your customer has trouble keeping a set of ignition points in his Rabbit, you’ll want to check for excessive wear in the distributor shaft bushings.
Corolla Transaxle Overhaul
Nobody likes doing the job a second time. These tips will help you do it right the first time around.
Carside Manner
Chocolate SAM and the Beckwith brothers
Toyota ABS
Good drivers will pump the brakes, releasing them every time traction is lost. But what about the inexperienced driver? And what about someone who just plain loses his cool?
Metrics, Mechanics, and Micrometers
In this less-than-formal introduction, we offer painless ways to cope with it. We discuss linear measurement and include a metric conversion chart.
K-Jetronic
Those technicians competent to repair fuel injection systems were ranked right up there with magicians, and harder to find…
K-Jetricks
Here are some time-saving tricks and handy test tips for this popular fuel-injection system.
Carburetor Clinic: Feedback Hitachi Two-Barrel
This carb appears on feedback-equipped front wheel drive Mazda GLCs. It’s just one of several up dated versions you’ll see of the basic Hitachi carb we covered in the November/December 1987 Carb Clinic.