Nose on the grindstone. Walser Buick GMC Bloomington (BGB) Semi-Skilled Technician Sophie Nystrom has the bar set high for herself.
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Nose on the grindstone. Walser Buick GMC Bloomington (BGB) Semi-Skilled Technician Sophie Nystrom has the bar set high for herself.
View full postIT Infrastructure Specialist Spencer Wyrick and IT Technician Jacob Marsnik met over six years ago at their UW River-Falls freshman dorm. They quickly became friends because they both studied computer science and shared interests like board games, biking, hiking, and video games.
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🔧 We're Hiring Experienced Technicians at Toyota of Corvallis! 🔧
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It's a great day to be alive!
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When it get hot we get the staff ice cream!
View full postHappy Friday! Almost every Friday our Parts team makes the whole dealership breakfast!
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Hello, I'm Bill Vickery, Sales & Leasing Consultant here at Tom Wood Subaru. Here’s why you should consider purchasing the 2025 Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness:
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Getting our Thursday started right! Staying busy and getting vehicles completed and back on the road!
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Day 2 of Dealer Pro training for our advisors. All about SELLING today!
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One of our Junior Technicians replacing a heater support pump.
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Summer's in full swing! Which Chevrolet EV are you gearing up to take on your next road trip?
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Both sides of our Audi shops have multiple large ceiling fans that run throughout the day in order to keep the shop cool. On hot days, we will also close the bay doors in order to keep the excess heat out.
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SHOP SAFETY IS OUR PRIORITY
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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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