Product Spotlight: Clean Up Your Shop!
These products help keep the bays a bit tidier.
Tech Feature: Performing the Complete Brake Job
The problem with routines is that we tend to – you guessed it – fall into a routine. Because the braking system on many modern imports is integrated into other systems like vehicle stability control (VSC) and traction control, modern braking systems must meet minimum levels of performance. For that reason alone, short-cutting a brake repair with substandard procedures and materials is a recipe for future comebacks.
Tech Feature: Courage Under Misfire
Generally, when a customer brings a vehicle into a shop that has a misfire concern, they will describe it as bucking, jerking or loss of power. They also may describe it, depending on the cause, as a jerking when they take off from a start, but smoothes out once the vehicle gets moving. They may tell you the check engine light has been flashing.
Tire Tech Tip: Always Install Two
When it’s time to replace only two tires on passenger vehicles, logic should take a back seat to physics – or in this case, a rear axle.
Typically, vehicles are shod with four similarly designed and constructed tires of the same size on the front and back. The tread depth of each starts out equal, and inflation pressure matches specifications posted on a vehicle’s information placard label and owner’s manual.
Tech Feature: Updating the Late-Model Hemi
When we started this project, we were anxious to find out how much power a Hemi stroker could produce. The block of choice was a 5.7L, based primarily on the fact that it is hard to find a 6.1L in a salvage yard.
SafeShop: Diesel and Gasoline Exhaust
Diesel and gasoline exhaust can be hazardous to employees working in dealerships and automotive services businesses. And not just those working in the shop are at risk; office employees can also be exposed through poor ventilation systems. Zurich provides information on how to help protect your business and your employees.
Dynamic vs. Static Fuel Systems: EFI Efficiency for Carburetors
Carburetors still rule in many forms of racing and on many street machines and watercraft. Converting to EFI has obvious benefits, but brings high cost, complexity and in many forms of racing isn’t legal.
Diagnostic Solutions: Air and Fuel Filter Maintenance
Although air and fuel filter maintenance is usually considered a “no-brainer” by most import repair shops, advancing technology is changing the way we should be performing air and fuel filter maintenance.
Tech Tip: Avoid Expensive Comebacks by Refinishing Rotors the Right Way
The key steps during disc brake service include determining rotor refinishing or replacement, properly cleaning all brake components (including items such as hub, rotor and wheel mating surfaces), properly refinishing the rotor (if applicable), and properly reassembling the brake assembly using the proper tools and torque specification. Here are some tips to ensure a successful brake service and prevent vibration and brake noise.
Tech Feature: General Motor’s Ecotec 2.0L Turbo Engine
General Motors introduced its powerful Ecotec 2.0L direct