MECHANICS TECH, TOOLS & TOYS
Although we generally don’t do mobile repairs anymore, we were recently called out to attend to a 2016 Ford Transit van that had suffered a catastrophic rear wheel bearing failure while traveling at 80km/h. Now, you’ll agree that rear wheel bearing failures are rare on these vehicles, but in this […]
Human Hoist says that using their creeper allows you to position yourself to the work when the work cannot be positioned to you. Your head is supported, you’re closer to the work which helps alleviate overextension of his arms, and you don’t have to lay in an awkward position. They […]
Don’t you hate it when you have the perfect join lined up when you’re installing an aftermarket accessory or repairing a wiring harness, you bring your soldering iron across and tin the join, smile to yourself at how perfect it looks and then it falls apart, flicks solder everywhere and […]
Most experienced technicians are skilled tool fabricators, and while most of the tools we make usually work pretty well, they usually only work well on the engines they are made for. Take flywheel-locking tools, for instance. We all know how difficult or frustrating it can be to prevent an engine […]
ULTRA BRIGHT – UPGRADED CREE T6 Wick has about 50% more brightness than basic LED flashlight. ADJUSTABLE FOCUS – Intense Spotlight for long range observation can up to 600 feet, Circle Floodlight for large area illumination. FIVE LIGHT MODES – High / Middle / Low / Strobe / SOS, With […]
We recently identified the screeching noise on a car of French manufacture as a failed/damaged bearing in the drive belt tensioner pulley. We are sure that most technicians have made similar diagnoses, so our verdict is not especially noteworthy. However, what is noteworthy was the way the customer reacted when […]
Wouldn’t it be great if someone invented a single tool that can disconnect all the various types of connectors on fuel, vacuum, and transmission cooling lines on all the vehicles we see every day? This is not a rhetorical question: we own a drawer full of various tools that can […]
The old adage that there is nothing new under the sun still holds true, and particularly in today’s world where there is a tool for every imaginable task; including tools to remove and fit constant tension hose clamps. However, as we know, hose clamp removal tools are not created equal, […]
We have all had those moments when we could not quite decide what was defective; a key fob, a receiver in an anti-theft, or a control module in a central locking system. In many cases, on-board defects would be indicated by one or more trouble codes, but as we know, […]
If you do not specialise in diesel service/repair you may not know that selective catalytic reduction technology uses AdBlue®, aka DEF, or Diesel Exhaust Fluid as a catalyst to initiate a process of converting the most harmful constituents of exhaust gas into innocuous substances like water. However, to do this, […]