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What Happens When You Don’t Drain Your Air Compressor? (You Don’t Want to Find Out.)

The shop maintenance task you can’t afford to forget.

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What tools do you keep in your road box for car repair? (VIDEO)

Do you have a toolbox ready to go for repairs on the road? What do you keep in it?

Best of Shop Press 2024

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Fronting & facing and staging orders: the fast track to the wholesale parts counter

Putting up freight and pulling orders is more than busywork. It’s tuition.

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Which Is Faster: A Spark Plug Firing or a Fuel Injector Spraying? (VIDEO)

Did you know that a modern fuel injection system can fire off multiple sprays in the same time it takes for a spark to jump across a plug?

Virgil Exner: The creator of Chrysler’s “forward look”

Exner was responsible for the look of cool cars of the late 1950’s, not just at Chrysler, but at other automakers as well.

Noisy disc brakes – ASE practice questions (VIDEO)

What causes brake noise?

Fuel pump designs are changing. Do you know what kind of fuel pump you’re troubleshooting?

Many vehicles today have made the switch to DC brushless fuel pumps. They don’t work like the older brush-type pumps do.

Mechanic trivia: Which vehicle has a longer passenger side wiper blade? (VIDEO)

Almost every vehicle on the road has a longer wiper blade on the driver side. On older vehicles, you’ll also see two of the same size wipers working together. But can you think of any models that have the longer wiper blade on the passenger side?

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Efficiency is the Name of the Game

Four proven ways to run a tighter ship at your shop.

Minimum rotor thickness – ASE practice questions (VIDEO)

What does “MIN THK.” really mean?

Battery date codes are painfully unstandardized and you’re better off without them

Don’t waste your time with codebreaking. Just grab a paint pen.

Using a spaghetti trick to keep zip ties organized (VIDEO)

Chefs know a helpful hack to keep spaghetti from falling out of an opened bag, and the same idea happens to work perfectly for zip ties. Give it a try next time you have a pack of zip ties that doesn’t have a resealable closure.