Wrenching
November 13, 2018 at 11:48 am
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2018 at 11:48 am by onlinebiker.)
If you work on your own vehicles - how much will you try?
I specialize in one basic platform ( s series Saturn) and have been through everything except the transaxles. I' m comfortable pulling an engine, or dropping the whole drive train out the bottom. I know what all the sensors are, what they do - and am pretty good at swapping parts between years. I have no formal schooling in auto mechanics, but learned it all by just doing it.
It' s nice - because it allows my SO and I to drive nice, clean, dependable cars - which are easy ( for me) to diagnose and fix.
I started working on 60' s and 70's vintage cars. If back then you told me I would use computers to diagnose and fix fuel injected, multi- valve DOHC, front wheel drive vehicles - I would have said you were nuts.
Today I had to change out a faulty CKP sensor - which is a blind job - it hides behind the starter motor - and has to be done by feel. A half hour job.
I specialize in one basic platform ( s series Saturn) and have been through everything except the transaxles. I' m comfortable pulling an engine, or dropping the whole drive train out the bottom. I know what all the sensors are, what they do - and am pretty good at swapping parts between years. I have no formal schooling in auto mechanics, but learned it all by just doing it.
It' s nice - because it allows my SO and I to drive nice, clean, dependable cars - which are easy ( for me) to diagnose and fix.
I started working on 60' s and 70's vintage cars. If back then you told me I would use computers to diagnose and fix fuel injected, multi- valve DOHC, front wheel drive vehicles - I would have said you were nuts.
Today I had to change out a faulty CKP sensor - which is a blind job - it hides behind the starter motor - and has to be done by feel. A half hour job.
