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May - 2016
Over April 15th and 16th , while so many of you were scrambling to get your taxes done before the deadline, I was in Seattle, Washington, for the Torque...
Alfred State College is a small technical school, with about 3500 students, in the Southern Tier of Western New York State. The college is part of the State...
One of the most important issues facing the U.S. is its graying population. We’re getting older every day, and nowhere is this more evident than with...
A late model vehicle comes into your shop. The engine is running sub par, but it’s hard to determine how bad because the transmission is slipping severely...
In this issue, we’re going to look at a 2007 GMC K2500 equipped with a 6L90E that had no line rise after being rebuilt. But first we’re going to take a...
Over the years I’ve developed a specific reputation with GEARS readers; you see my byline and you figure I’m going to be talking about tech. Not all that...
In the last issue of GEARS we looked at oxygen sensor testing, and it brought up some interesting questions about fuel trim. As a result, we’ll spend the...
Were you in the armed services? Which branch? I was in the Army National Guard and the Army Reserves, six years total. I trained at Ft. Polk, Louisiana; Ft...
Over the past thirty years I’ve had the pleasure of meeting hundreds of business owners and seeing, firsthand, how they run their shops. These shops run the...
Up Your Business is an exclusive GEARS Magazine feature in which I share stories, insights, and reflections about real business and life challenges.
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Cadillacs have always given diagnosticians headaches when it comes to diagnostics. Let’s not kid anyone here: the Cadillac has twenty plus modules, miles of...
Durability and performance have always been a concern for anyone building transmissions. The same can be said for torque converter rebuilders. Though there are...
In the March 2016 issue of GEARS, we examined a previously unmentioned problem with 400 and 4L80 transmissions: component float. We saw what causes this float...