Technicians – We’re Open & Hiring at Toyota of Corvallis! 🚗🔧
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Technicians – We’re Open & Hiring at Toyota of Corvallis! 🚗🔧
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🚗 Unleash Performance with the 2024 Subaru WRX at Tom Wood Subaru! 🚗
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We’re Hiring Technicians at Toyota of Corvallis!
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Anyone else wish it last week? We had a blast with our Super Bowl Pre-Game Appetizer Challenge!
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Here at European Autowerks we always use our heads when making repairs. NO matter how old the vehicle we always give it our undivided attention.
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Snow season is officially in full swing!!! ❄️
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Catch up on what's been going on in our shops with Benjamin Smyth!
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When life gives us snow, we make the most of it! The Village Ford tam took a break from selling cars to engage in an epic (and very friendly) snowball fight! Laughter, teamwork, and a little friendly competition turned a snowy day into a memory we won't forget!
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Hear from Casey, the dynamic Shop Manager at Rihm Leasing, as he shares his experience working with Rihm Family Companies, a leading transportation solutions provider.
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Hear from Casey, the dynamic Shop Manager at Rihm Leasing, as he shares his experience working with Rihm Family Companies, a leading transportation solutions provider.
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Our Rd Service and Dedicated Account Technicians earn between 25-30% commission on flagged hours with a labor rate of $90-$100/hr.
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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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