Get Organized! A Place for Everything – and Everything in Its Place
Organization is essential to productivity; you need a clean workspace where everything is easy to find.
Specialty Tools Save Techs Time & Money
Specialty hand tools have the potential to save a technician a significant amount of time, and the customer a good deal of money.
Suspension Hacks: Servicing Modern Suspensions
Homemade tool solutions might cost you a lot more than they are worth. Your “calibrated elbow” torque wrench should be replaced with a real torque wrench and a way to measure torque angles.
Profitable J-2534 Reprogamming
Reflashing is a necessary service for repairing your customers’ vehicles, and its importance is only going to increase. Here are some of the items your shop needs to invest in to perform more reflash/reprogramming jobs.
Is The Time Right For Cordless Power Tools?
Thanks to advances in long life, high power lithium-ion battery technology, smart power management and more powerful and efficient brushless electric motors, many brand name cordless power tools can now compete successfully with most pneumatic tools.
Aluminum Suspension Hacks: Tool Up & Torque Up
The most important benefit of aluminum is the reduction in unsprung weight. This is why more and more vehicles entering your shop will have more aluminum suspension components today than ever before.
Take 5 To Tell Us Your Top 5 Favorite Tools
When you send us your list of your five favorite tools that help you in the shop, along with a sentence or two about why you like them, we’ll send you a $25 Amazon gift card.
Selling Brake Fluid Flushes
Selling brake flushes is a great preventive maintenance service to offer your customers. Many customers don’t know the benefits that brake flushes can have on their vehicle’s performance. It’s up to you to educate them on the benefits this service offers.
See the Latest Humble Mechanic Videos!
Charles answers viewers’ questions and offers advice on oil consumption, vibration on acceleration and no-start issues.
Electronics Continue to Change the Game
The new electronics packages in vehicles have changed and added challenges to the way we do business, says writer Mitch Becker. They have also created a lot of frustration.
Fuel Pumps and Scan Tools – A Match Made in Heaven
With a scan tool, it’s possible to verify if the modules controlling the fuel pump are receiving the correct data, such as oil pressure, crank position and key position. Some late-model imports have even turned the fuel pump into its own module or node on the high-speed serial data bus.
Spray Guns: Ensuring Success in the Paint Shop
Today’s quality spray guns are precision instruments. Quality spray guns can be used for many years, so do your research up front.
