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The Battery Electric Revolution
Photo 1: The plug-in connector will be the gas pump of the future. Look for BEV growth to increase by double digits. The title of my column, “A Seismic Shift in Battery Power: Volkswagen Tops Pikes...
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How To Diagnose NVH Complaints In Drivetrain Components
Photo 1: Couplers are designed to operate at minimal angles of deflection and to dampen drivetrain noises. Thanks to advanced technology, modern vehicles operate with fewer noise, vibration and...
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Fuel System Diagnostics Is All In The Fuel Trim Numbers
With lean-burn operating strategies being built into many of today’s gasoline direct-injection and gasoline compression ignition engines, it’s important to build a foundational knowledge of how fuel...
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Emissions 101: A Basic Understanding Of How Catalytic Converters Operate
When servicing catalytic converters, it’s important to have a basic understanding of how they operate. To begin, an internal combustion engine creates heat energy by igniting a mixture of gasoline...
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Understanding Five Volt Reference Signals
Garbage In, Garbage Out: How to Find It and How to Fix It The old saying in the computer business is, “garbage in, garbage out.” During the diagnostic process, we occasionally forget that OBD II...
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Solving 2014 Toyota Tacoma Cooling System Sensor Codes
It’s All About Doing Your Homework At the amateur end, diagnostics can be about using a code reader to find a diagnostic trouble code (DTC) and a smart phone to find an Internet solution. The Internet...
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Nissan Frontier: Finding Failures, Faults
While they might appear mysterious at times, electronic throttle body (ETB) and accelerator position pedal (APP) system technologies aren’t complicated if we apply a foundational concept to the many...
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Engine Compression Testing
Cylinder Sealing: The Art of Measuring What’s Happening Now Cylinder sealing is the name of the game if you’re diagnosing compression problems on a modern engine equipped with variable valve timing...
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Diagnosing Secondary Ignition Problems
How High, How Low and Where Do We Go? Somewhere in the study of ignition science, many of us come away with the idea that secondary ignition voltage, as expressed in kilovolts (kV), is the end-all,...
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Master Cylinders Need Periodic Inspections
If nothing else, modern master cylinders are notable for their long and relatively trouble-free service lives. The modern master cylinder evolved from the single-piston types popularly introduced in...
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