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How To Diagnose Slow or Sluggish Oxygen Sensors
EGR, Secondary Air Injection And Emissions Management
Do Oxygen Sensors Generate Electricity?
Detecting Misfire And Knock Conditions
Alternator Testing For No Charge Conditions
Today's powertrain & engine management systems contain a dizzying array of sensors that provide the car's Engine Control Unit with vital data. After attending this course, you'll have an understanding of the various sensor technology types. You'll also learn how properly troubleshoot the root cause of sensor failures.
This technical topic is geared for the average B and or B+ technician and/or a challenging refresher for the A technician. We'll use real-world data and case studies to create best practices.
Speakers Philip Austin Manager of Technical Training USA/Canada NGK Spark Plugs With 25 years of Automotive Industry experience, starting off as an ASE certified OE Dealership Technician to OE Dealership Assistant Service Manager. Thereafter Philip Austin has held various leadership roles along with training & development roles within the industry. A lifelong pursuit of learning and teaching has taken him to every corner of the automotive industry. As a previous OE Tech, successful Shop co-owner, Technical Trade School Instructor, Technical Content Developer, Business Consultant, and Guest Instructor on the Velocity Channel Automotive Cable Series- Tech Garage; he is dedicated to supporting the growth of all automotive professionals via training & development. Philip is currently the Manager of Technical Training at NGK Spark Plugs. Andrew Markel Technical Director of Content Babcox Media
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Underhood Service targets repair shops that derive 50 percent or more of their revenue from the service and repair of under-the-hood systems. The expanding amount of knowledge and capital needed to keep up with technological advances has led these shop owners to concentrate on underhood systems, while also offering preventive maintenance services on most major vehicle systems. By subscribing, you’ll receive the ShopOwner digital edition magazine (12 times/year) featuring articles from Underhood Service and the Underhood Service eNewsletter (twice weekly). Access to digital editions, contests, news, and more are ready for you today!
Underhood Service targets repair shops that derive 50 percent or more of their revenue from the service and repair of under-the-hood systems. The expanding amount of knowledge and capital needed to keep up with technological advances has led these shop owners to concentrate on underhood systems, while also offering preventive maintenance services on most major vehicle systems. By subscribing, you’ll receive the ShopOwner digital edition magazine (12 times/year) featuring articles from Underhood Service and the Underhood Service eNewsletter (twice weekly). Access to digital editions, contests, news, and more are ready for you today!
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Time measures the profitability of both a shop and technician, and experience is the best tool for profitability and productivity. The more you work on cars and trucks for a living, the more realize that some things might cost you pennies, but not using it can cost you dollars—this is certainly the case with WD-40 Specialist® Penetrant with EZ-REACH®
To understand why it’s so important to use a penetrant like WD-40 Specialist Penetrant with EZ-REACH, it’s important to know just what a penetrant does. Is it magic? Not really. It’s much simpler in that penetrants and lubricants help to reduce friction, therefore breaking the bonds between the friction surfaces of the threads.
A bolt and nut use friction to hold clamping loads. The threads create surface area that is used to create this friction. The amount of friction depends on the surface area and clamping loads created by the pitch and rotation torque.
Friction Science Think of friction as a high-performance brake system. A brake rotor and pads are like the threads. The larger the rotor or brake pads, the more friction or torque the brake system can generate. The clamping loads are determined by the hydraulic forces behind the caliper’s piston. Applied to a threaded fastener, the threads are the brake pads and rotor, the caliper is the wrench turning the threads.
So, what happens when you introduce a lubricant onto a brake rotor or pads? Friction is reduced, and stopping distances are increased. When a fastener’s threads are lubricated, friction is reduced, and the amount of torque required to break loose a fastener is reduced.
WD-40 Specialist Penetrant with EZ-REACH is a fast-acting penetrant that breaks through corrosion and rust. The penetrant has low surface tension, which generates capillary action. This means it will penetrate the tightest spaces of a fastener, even creeping upwards in defiance of gravity to reach tiny cracks and gaps to reduce friction between threaded surfaces.
Time and Money But what do you care? You have the most powerful impacts and longest breaker bars to apply more torque. The reality is with some stuck fasteners, more torque can cost you more time. Most fasteners have a limit of torque they can withstand before they strip, stretch or break. For some fasteners, it is a fine line between breakaway torque and a broken bolt or screw. For technicians working on flat rate, dealing with a busted fastener can put you into the unprofitable zone when it comes to hours a job will pay. Taking a little time to spray down a fastener with WD-40 Specialist Penetrant with EZ-REACH can lower the potential of damaging a fastener by decreasing the friction.
On some jobs, it might be challenging to spray a bolt or nut with WD-40® Multi-Use Product. For example, it could be an exhaust manifold shoehorned next to a strut tower or a bolt holding a wheel bearing to a knuckle. But, with the new WD-40 Specialist Penetrant with EZ-REACH, it is possible to reach challenging bolts with the flexible straw.
WD-40 Specialist Penetrant with EZ-REACH penetrates up to two times faster than the competition* and prevents rust 10x longer than the competition**. The ingredients and aerosol propellants are 50-state VOC compliant and have a lower number of lingering odors. The formulation is safe to use on plastics and rubber. It will also not damage wiring, connectors and sensors.
No matter which WD-40 Specialist product you reach for, the decades of science behind WD-40 Brand products and formulas deliver the superior performance you need to get the Job Done Right™. WD-40 Specialist Penetrant with EZ-REACH is available at Advance Auto Parts.
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