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  • Are You Still Using a Compression Tester?

    How many of you still use a compression tester to diagnose a rough-running problem? How many of you are still doing a compression test as part of a tune-up? Not many, I…

    02-07-2006By Bob Paff

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  • Cleaning Bulb Sockets

    Need to clean out corroded small bulb sockets?  From you're local hardware store, purchase a brush for prepping copper pipe for soldering. The tool has different sizes for different pipe…

    29-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Tools Explained

    (I'm not sure where this originated but Eric from Perform-x sent it and I just had to share it) DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal…

    12-01-2011By Bob Paff

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  • Cheap Hose Cutters

    An inexpensive tool for cutting hose.

    29-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Control Your Coolant 2

    Still a mess trying to drain a cooling system?  

    29-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Easy easy outs

    Thanks to Eric from Perform-x for this tip. We've all had the issue of having to drill out broken studs or bolts. If it's broken above the surface, at least there's something…

    18-11-2018By Bob Paff

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  • Free Mini-Honer

    Need to hone or sand inside a small tube?  Try this. Open a cotter pin and insert the end of a 6 to 8 in. piece of emery cloth (you're…

    29-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • What Ignition Timing?

    Need to find true TDC?

    29-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Control Your Coolant

    When draining a radiator with an old brass drain cock you can control the coolant flow by placing a 90-degree spark plug boot over the collar of the drain cock…

    29-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Paper Clip Trick #2

    Keep losing circuit backprobes? Here's a cheap alternative.

    03-12-2017By Bob Paff

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  • Messy Drawers

    Are your pliers piled up in a drawer. Eric from Perform-X Auto came up with a simple and really cool idea using an old bird cage.

    10-07-2016By Eric

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  • Shopping for a Scanner

    If you're in the market for a new scanner, read this first. Over the years I had been hearing the stories of shops having multiple scanners, the highest

    05-10-2017By Bob Paff

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  • It's Not Brakes

    The customer said it must be a bearing noise because it just happened.  

    07-12-2019By Bob Paff

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  • Stuck on a Job

    One Saturday, I was working the floor alone and my wife was working the counter. I was draped across the motor, doing some distributor work on an older chevy 4x4…

    18-01-2011By Bob Paff

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  • Vanilla Ice Cream

    A complaint was received, a few years ago, by the Pontiac Division of General Motors: "This is the second time I have written you, and I don't blame you for not…

    25-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Driveline Vibration

    This guy ran over a mattress and decided to keep going. The ensuing jumble finally whipped around enough to put a tear in the gas tank, the subsequent lack of fuel…

    25-08-2010By Bob Paff

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  • No Moisture in This Cap

    A few years ago, this customer comes in with his 1972 Camaro. He said he got it out of the body shop two months earlier after rear ending a truck…

    02-12-2009By Bob Paff

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  • Hubcap Woes

    The day after I completed a 4 wheel brake job for this lady, she returned to the shop and started to take a strip out of me. "When I dropped…

    18-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Cooling Flush?

    This guy comes in with his 2002 Jimmy and said it was idling a little rough. It was his granddaughter's truck, but he didn't think it would need too much…

    25-08-2010By Bob Paff

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  • STUPID Mistakes that will make you feel better as a tech

    Dumb Tech Stories from a Ford blog site many years ago. Names were removed to protect the guilty:

    05-10-2017By Bob Paff

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  • Sticker Shock

    Quite a few years ago, I was managing the Speedy Muffler in Kelowna when a young couple came in to have the car checked out.

    18-08-2007By Bob Paff

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  • Sometimes you're a hero

    A tow truck drove in one day, with an Olds 88 in tow. The driver and owner get out and the driver explains to me that something in the drive…

    18-08-2007By Bob Paff

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