Service Advisor: Let It Ride
15 Ride Control Tips for Selling the Job Right
Truck Stop: Start Your Engines — Tips for Winterizing Heavy-Duty Diesels
Diesels like it hot. Although a heavy-duty diesel engine can power a truck, locomotive or even an oil rig, it still needs some TLC in preparation for cold temperatures.
Undercover: Debating a Complete Brake Job
One of the major issues with selling customers a “complete” brake job is that the components in the brake system do not wear at the same rate.
Performance Primer: Pursuing the Performance Mod Market
One of the advantages of doing import performance modifications and upgrades is that you don’t have to wait for cars to break to get business.
Report Card: Show Stopper — Northwood Student’s Mustang Generates Plenty of Interest
The car, a ‘67 Flashback, was built by Classic Design Concepts (CDC) Novi, MI.
TT October Pop Quiz: Friction
This month, we’re testing friction knowledge. Students should choose the answer that best completes the following statements.
Real World: Getting Down and Dirty with Off-Road Racing Engines
People love their trucks and with more and more manufacturers offering beefed up trucks and SUVs with four-wheel drive, more are prone to take them off road, or at least live vicariously by watching others take theirs off road.
Crossword Puzzle: October 2009
Across 1. Electrical system safety valve 3. Screwdriver with cruciform point 9. Downforce-enhancing race-car appendage 10. Camshaft protrusions 11. Wire-wheel component 12. Shagadelic Jaguar driver Powers 14. Variable-____ power steering 16. Creature seen on car-wax label 19. US stock-car-racing association 21. Pink-slip possessor 24. Palindromic brake component 25. Radio adjunct in some windshields 26. Carries
Service Advisor: Technician Town Hall Spurs Responses on Rotor Runout
Just like the town hall meetings across the country where Americans have questions for their government representatives, tomorrow’s technicians have questions of their own on ways to better service their future customers.
Under the Hood: Charging Ahead into Electrical System Testing
Although checking charging voltage at the battery terminals is the most popular method for testing an alternator, a charging voltage test seldom reveals less common problems like open or shorted alternator diodes, intermittent high or low charging rates, charging system wiring problems, intermittent cranking/no-start complaints or intermittent dead battery complaints.
Component Connection: Determining the Clues to Engine Bearing Failures
Because of the stresses caused by the explosions inside the internal combustion engine, engine bearing material must be extremely strong.