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Presents People email me regularly with horror stories of inept automotive
technicians charging them a fortune to mess up their car worse than
ever. Is there a way to find a good mechanic? Yes!
Don't
Disconnect the Battery with the Engine Running!
Well meaning mechanics and friends do this all the time.
Sometimes nothing breaks. Sometimes it fries computers and other
semiconductors. Includes a letter to give mechanics before they start
work.
Steve Litt's Automotive
Overheating
Guide
Tips on finding the root cause of an overheating
problem.
Roadside
Overheating
Diagnosis
The entire Fall 2002 Troubleshooting Professional
Magazine
details all aspects of this important subject. The time to read this is
before you're stuck on the side of the road with a broken head gasket
and
plumes of steam rising from the engine.
Automotive
Cooling
System Maintenance and Repair
Our most comprehensive cooling system docs to date.
Theory
of automotive cooling systems, the anatomy of an overheat, fast and
economical
diagnostic techniques, and cooling system preventive maintenance. This
is the April 2002 Troubleshooting Professional Magazine.
Troubleshooting
Automotive Overheating
The entire May 2000 issue of Troubleshooting
Professional
Magazine is devoted to this subject.
Working With
Auto
Mechanics
The entire May 2001 issue of Troubleshooting
Professional
Magazine is devoted to finding, evaluating, and working with excellent
automotive mechanics.
Steve Litt's
Automotive
Overheating Autoreply
This is the autoreply I send to emailed auto
overheating
questions whose answers can be found on Troubleshooters.Com, or
questions
not thorougly thought out by the sender. This is also a wonderful
resource
for anyone with an overheat problem.
The
Universal Troubleshooting Process:
The ten step process optimized for diagnosing problems
in machines and systems, INCLUDING CARS AND TRUCKS. This is the most
famous
content on Troubleshooters.Com.
Litt's Overheating
Hypothesis:
A discussion of a possible cause for cyclic
overheating,
unexplained overheating, and unexplained coolant loss, and a test to
verify
or rule out that hypothesis. This has been superceded by Troubleshooting
Automotive Overheating, but it's reveals some of the underlying
thought
that came before.
The Creative Lab Scope Technique Page: Tom Roberts has assembled this authoritative site devoted to automotive diagnosis with a digital storage oscilloscope. A must-read for the shop wanting to move beyond tuneups and tires.
The Dodge Dart Page: You want to know engine sizes, compressions, production numbers, and ideosyncracies of every Dodge Dart from 1963-1976? It's all here!
Autohaus AZ Gasoline Alley Tech Tips: Lots of great info on several automotive systems. I especially like the tips on brakes and the cooling system.
Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge Central: Unltimate Mopar site. Links to just about everything, and lots of value added including troubleshooting tips and a great FAP. Excellent engine reference.
The Dodge Dart Page: Some
people
love MoPar. At 18 I bought my first car, 1959 Plymouth with a flathead
6 and a peace symbol. It burned a quart of oil every 50 miles. Years
later
I got a 72 Dodge Coronet with a 400. Now I have a 67 Coronet. I have
318
reasons to love it and one not to -- it's not a Dart! If you don't
understand
this, or if you do, or if you need info on what Darts could take what
engines,
or which darts came with hemis, read The
Dodge Dart Page.
Automotive Cooling System Maintenance and Repair.
Litt's Overheating Hypothesis.
http://www.autoshop-online.com/auto101/cooling1.html: Great beginner theory on the cooling system. Part of the great Autoshop Online documentation.
AirCondition.Com: Good source of automotive AC info. Best thing about this site are the Bulletin Board.
Autoshop 101: Free, online courses on electricity and basic auto electronics. Huge numbers of PDF documents on the electrical system.
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