Celebrating the Moms Who Keep Us Moving – Happy (Belated) Mother’s Day!
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Celebrating the Moms Who Keep Us Moving – Happy (Belated) Mother’s Day!
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At Tom Wood Subaru, we take pride in providing exceptional service—not just for our customers, but within our team as well. That’s why we’re excited to shine the spotlight on Tony Varcak, our newest Service Advisor, who’s already making a big impression in a very short time.
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Our brand new Ford Pro Elite building is in the final stretches of being up and operational! We are more than excited to be able to offer our technicians, and our guests, a new and more efficient environment to have all of their needs taken care of!
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ECCA Automotive Students Earn Ford Mobile Service Technician Certification
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What percentage of technicians do you currently work with or have worked with in your career truly have the training and knowledge to properly diagnose and repair the vehicles of today?
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Giving Back, One Pint at a Time! ❤️
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Here at Tom Wood Ford, we strive to further your education in automotive and get you any and all certifications! Congratulations gentlemen!
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Its crazy how many folks are in need of information. Posted this video a few months back. Shop owners have been calling me up to ask for tips on performing alignments. They all admit they didnt know how to work on cars but bought a shop anyway!
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Happy Mothers Day to all the mommas out there!
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Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there!
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Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there!
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What’s one shop task you secretly enjoy that most people hate?
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When it comes to diagnostics, do you have a game plan to succeed? This capture is from a 2014 Chevrolet Express that sheared the camshaft sprocket locating pin causing a cranking/no start condition. The vehicle had good spark, injector pulse, fuel pressure, fuel quality, compression and the timing marks for the camshaft sprocket and the crankshaft sprocket lined up as they should. The broken locating pin caused the compression stroke to get out of time with the ignition event which causes the combustion event not to take place. Without a logical testing process, vehicles like this can be nearly impossible to diagnose. So what can we do to tackle these vehicles? Write down your testing process ahead of time, make sure each test is eliminating a possibility and do the tests in a logical order that makes sense to you.
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I'm curious how it had good compression when valves are opening when they shouldn't? Perhaps only 10-15 degrees out of time? Considering that the camshaft position sensor reads off the gear and the gear is in time, how would the Pico Scope tell you the camshaft itself was out of time? Short of removing the camshaft gear for inspection, how would a tech know that is the problem?
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With the scope we are able to look at the ignition event in relation to tdc of the compression stroke and determine if spark is occurring at the correct time. Using a scope to check cam/crank correlation in this particular scenario won’t help you because of the cam gears/chain still being in time. There’s a tab for this concern but it’s supposed to happen at a low mileage, this one had just over 200k miles on it. The tsb does not give any way to verify the concern without tear down. Looking at compression/ignition event just tells us if that’s why it isn’t starting. As far as why it has good compression, that’s a great question! Unfortunately I don’t have a 100% answer for you because I didn’t get to be there when they pulled the cam gear off. I was sent the pics afterwards of the broken lock pin. (edited)
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