Lubricants: ConocoPhillips Lubricants Academy Updates Comprehensive Online and Hands-On Training Programs
Comprehensive computer modules and in-depth offsite product training courses are designed to give marketers a convenient way to continue their lubricants training
Lubricants: Performance Oils and Additives: Got Zinc?
Experts say it may be time to change your motor oil (brand). It’s more than a coincidence that engine builders have experienced more flat tappet cam failures in the last few years than at any point prior.
Special Report: A Case of Bad Gas
Bad gas comes in many different varieties. There’s the kind you get when you gulp down a double bean burrito. But not so funny is the kind that comes out of a pump nozzle in filling stations across the country. According to some sources, there’s more bad gas out there than the industry is willing
Component Connection: A Little Homework Goes a Long Way
A Study in Starter Failures – In the early days of the automobile, starting an engine consisted of first retarding the spark and adjusting the hand choke to optimum fuel mixture. The next step was to pull a cylinder onto compression stroke and “snap” the piston past top dead center with the hand crank. Modern starters, of course, use an electric solenoid to close the circuit between the battery and starter motor and to keep the drive pinion engaged with the flywheel until the engine achieves idle speed.
SPECIAL REPORT: Future Shock – The Popularity of EVs
Electric Vehicle (EV) Technology is Back in the Limelight
Living Under the Hood: Sensing Something Awry
Once considered leading-edge technology, today’s oxygen sensor has become a commonplace service item on modern vehicles.
Crossword Puzzle: March 2008
Across 1. Radiator diagnostic procedures (8,5) 8. Starting aid on pre-EFI engine 9. Torque-converter component 10. Valvetrain component 11. Ran the engine at lowest RPM 13. Pink-slip names 15. GM’s emergency-aid system 18. Piston count in Chrysler’s Hemi 20.
Service Advisor
Motor Oil’s Effect on Clean Engines; and a Super-Duty Headache
What Dreams May Come
Opinion Piece by Ed Sunkin, editor Tomorrow’s Technician
Service Advisor: A Plug’s Life
How to Read Spark Plugs