Low-Temperature Fuel System Additives: Keeping Fuel Lines Flowing
Preventative maintenance always is the best way to guard against cold-weather problems, but keeping a strong supply of winter fuel-treatment chemicals still can be helpful to your customers – and profitable for your store.
Dirty Air Filters Can Tell Us The Dirty Truth About A Vehicle’s Engine
Other than cross-referencing or measuring the occasional dirty element, we don’t have much opportunity to see the condition of the filter, an advantage that our professional customers enjoy every oil change or other service opportunity.
Serpentine Belts: Alignment And Wear
Belt misalignment can be caused by any of the accessory pulleys, or may be the result of improper belt installation.
Sway Bar Bushings Sales Tips
Sway bar bushings are small but important suspension components that can be easily replaced. Yet a surprising number of vehicles have either missing or worn-out sway bar components.
Live Axle
The live rear axle still presents parts specialists with a number of unique bearing and seal designs that make each style of axle challenging to catalog, even if most of the solid-axle options we see today are for older vehicles.
Crank It Up! Understanding Crankshaft Materials
Fortunately for our customers, this costly chunk of iron or steel isn’t a regular replacement item. Unfortunately for many counter professionals, this also means they may not be all that familiar with the basics of crankshaft materials, design and selection.
Doin’ Donuts: API Licensed And Certified Motor Oils
“Donuts and Starburst” sounds like what passes for lunch to a busy parts specialist, but in this case, it refers to the American Petroleum Institute (API) symbols and marks used to identify quality lubricants used in gas and diesel engines.
Selling Delco 10MT And PG260 Starters
In various forms, the Delco 10MT starter is very likely on a shelf in every parts store in the U.S., as it was the OEM small-block Chevy starter for nearly 40 years.
Counter View: Understanding Honda Variable Valve Timing
VTEC is short for Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control. (It seems someone missed a few letters creating that acronym, but I suppose it does sound cooler than “VVTALEC.”)
Technical Forum 2017: Power Window Regulators
We love power windows as long as they’re working correctly. But if they’re not working, they can be a real pain — especially if you’re in a fast food drive-thru lane or pull up to an ATM machine.
Counter View: One Size Fits All? Not When Selecting Universal Electric Fuel Pumps
While universal pumps allow vehicle owners to restore function to many types of fuel systems, they are not intended for every situation
Tool Talk: Show And Tell! Tool Training For Tired Techs
Technician training is a great way for your store or warehouse group to connect with your customer base as well as show off profitable tool and equipment lines.
